Scientific Method
Vocabulary
Scientists
Module 3 Review
Miscellaneous
100
The first step in the S. Method.
What is Make observations?
100
The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living substances.
What is spontaneous generation?
100
The scientist who proposed the heliocentric system.
Who is Copernicus?
100
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?
100
In the absence of air, all objects, regardless of weight or shape, ?
What is fall at the same rate?
200
The last step in the Scientific Method.
What is Theory becomes a law?
200
An endeavor dedicated to the accumulation and classification of observable facts in order to formulate general laws about the natural world.
What is science?
200
The scientist that is best known for his model of the atom.
Who is Bohr?
200
Placebo definition:
What is a fake pill made of sugar that looks identical to pills being tested?
200
This was witnessed when substances from the balloon were mixed with substances in the 2 liter bottle.
What is a chemical reaction?
300
An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question.
What is hypothesis?
300
The variable or part of the experiment to which all others can be compared.
What is the control?
300
This scientist championed the idea of spontaneous generation.
Who is Aristotle?
300
Data that depend to some extent on a person's opinion.
What is subjective?
300
This is not a means by which something can be proven.
What is science?
400
A hypothesis that has been tested witha significant amount of data.
What is a theory?
400
An aspect of an experiment that changes during the course of the experiment.
What is experimental variabale?
400
This scientist determined how traits are passed on during reproduction.
Who is Mendel?
400
Solution definition:
What is the result of when a substance is dissolved in another substance?
400
The conclusions of science are always this.
What is tentative?
500
Definition of Scientific Law:
What is a theory that has beaen tested by and is consistent with generations of data?
500
An experiment in which neither the participants nor the people analyzing the results know who is in the control group.
What is double-blind?
500
This scientist laid down the laws of motion, developed the law of universal gravity and invented calculus.
Who is Newton?
500
The horizontal axis of a graph.
What is the x-axis?
500
Saltwater is ______ than pure water?
What is denser?
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