History of Science

Scientific Inquiry
Experiments & Lab Report Vocab
More Experiments Vocab
Miscelleaneous
100
The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living substances.
What is Spontaneous Generation?
100
An example that contradicts a conclusion.
What is Counter Example?
100

This is the number of variables you should change when conducting an experiment

What is ONE

100

An aspect of an experiment that changes during the course of the experiment. 

An experimental variable

100
Studying rocks to learn the history of the earth.
What is Geology?
200
The scientist whose greatest contribution was his work on how traits are passed on during reproduction. Genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
200
An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question.
What is a Hypothesis?
200

The section of a lab report that includes a comprehensive list of everything you will be using for your experiment, including quantities of what you use.

What are Materials

200

Why do you need a control in an experiment?

You need to be able to compare your results to
some kind of standard. Compare your results to
something you know.

200

Experiments in which neither the participants nor the people analyzing the results know who is in the control group.

What are double blind experiments?

300
Championed the heliocentric system, which is the best description of how the planets and sun are arranged.
Who is Copernicus?
300
A scientist makes some observations and forms an idea that explains those observations. He then does some experiments to test his idea, and all the experiments support the idea.
What is a theory?
300

The section of your lab report that should contain graphs, tables, charts and other numerical information

What is your data or your results

300

Experiments in which neither the participants nor the people analyzing the results know who is in the control group

What are double blind experiments

300

Saltwater is more dense than pure water. True of false?

True

400
People who want to turn lead (or other inexpensive items) into gold (or other valuable items).
Alchemists
400
Can Science be used to prove that a given idea is correct?
No, science cannot prove anything.
400

The thing that is being tested in an experiment. Also, the "then" part of your hypothesis

What is the dependent variable

400

When forming a hypothesis, it should always be

What is testable

400

The ability of a liquid's surface to resist a force applied to it due to the attraction between the liquid's molecules

What is surface tension

500
Laid down the laws of motion, developed a universal law of gravity, invented calculus, wrote many commentaries on the Bible, showed white light is really composed of many different colors of light, and ame up with a completely different design for telescopes.
Who is Isaac Newton?
500
A bowling ball and piece of paper are anchored to the top of a tall chamber that has no air in it. At the same instant, they are both released so they start to fall. Which hits the bottom of the chamber first?
Neither will hit the bottom of the chamber first, as all things fall at the same rate in the absence of air.
500

Data whose value cannot be affected by a person's opinion

What is objective data

500

If your experiment leads to a hypothesis that is incorrect, this is the next scientific step to take

What is form a new hypothesis and design a new experiment to test that hypothesis

500

This relies on relics from the past and historical records to try to discover truth

What is historical science

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