Scientific Method
This term describes the statement you make when you accept or reject your hypothesis.
What is the conclusion?
Something that can be changed, controlled, or measured.
What is a variable?
a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass
are brought toward one another
What is gravity?
A picture of data that helps scientists understand the data.
What is a graph?
Each of the four parts of the year that have certain weather patterns and daylight hours, that’s caused by the tilt of the earth’s axis and its orbit
What are the seasons?
The constant factors that do not change when conducting an experiment.
What is a constant variable?
an object that moves around another larger object in space
What is a satellite?
An object follows a path around another body in space
What is revolution?
This is how you show data in a visual display.
What is a graph or a chart?
This is the variable that is measured or observed in an experiment.
What is a dependent variable?
Another name for a shooting star.
What is a meteor?
The variable that usually goes on the Y axis.
What is the dependent variable?
to spin on an axis
What is rotation?
The variable that is the cause, in a cause and effect relationship.
What is an independent variable?
The name of the solar system model that depicted the Earth as the center of the universe.
What is heliocentric?
The two factors that affect gravitational pull between objects.
What are mass and distance?
Identify the dependent variable?
Which type of ball rolls down a 3-foot ramp the fastest?
What is the speed of the ball?
The planets to move closer to the Sun at certain times of the year and further from the Sun during other times of the year. What is this due to?
What are elliptical orbits?
The best type of graph to show percentages
What is circle graph/pie chart
The two forces that keep the planets in orbit around the sun.
What are gravity and distance?