Mass
The scale is used to measure the amount of ______ in a substance.
What is mass?
This is the measurement used to calculate the amount of space a substance takes up.
What is volume?
The problem you are trying to solve or question you are trying to answer.
What is the testable or experimental question?
Science studies the natural world through _____.
What is experimentation?
Identify the IV: How does the type of soil affect the height of the plant in cm?
What is the type of soil?
This is the object that needs its mass removed from the total mass when massing a liquid.
What is the mass of the container holding the liquid?
This is the formula for finding the volume of a regular shaped object.
What is length x width x height?
The variable you change in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
This is is the process of making an observation, asking a question, develop a hypothesis, design an experiment, collect data, analyze data, conclude and share results.
What is the cycle of science?
Identify the DV: Does the amount of fertilizer affect the number of seed pods produced?
What is the number of seeds produced?
This is the base unit for mass.
What is the Gram?
This is the method used to measure the volume of an irregular substance.
What is the displacement method?
The variable you measure or observe.
What is the dependent variable?
In an experiment, you are trying to find the answer to a question or a problem. Your prediction of a logical outcome of the experiment based on your prior knowledge is called ____________
What is a hypothesis?
The following statement is an example of a(n) ___. If hot cocoa is placed in three 250 mL beakers containing 150 mL of water of different temperatures (20 °C, 30 °C, and 40 °C), then the cocoa in the beaker containing 40 °C water will have the fastest rate of dissolving.
What is a hypothesis?
The the total mass of a beaker of water is 300 grams. The mass of the beaker is 150 grams. Find the mass of the water.
What is 150 grams?
Milliliters and Liters.
What are the units of volume?
Variables that need to stay the same throughout the experiment.
The reason we are specific, detailed and write down everything during a lab is so that ___________
So others can replicate your results.
If the title of an experiment is "The Effect of the amount of water on plant height” this is the independent variable.
What is the amount of water?
This is the difference between mass and weight.
What is mass measures the amount of matter in a substance, and weight measures the force of gravity on a substance?
The initial volume of a graduated cylinder is 50 ml. 2 marbles are added. The final volume is 130 ml. Find the volume of one marble.
What is 40 ml?
The standard of comparison in an experiment.
What is a control group?
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning.
What is the general process/outline of how a scientific investigation is conducted?
In order to correctly determine the effect of varying amounts of fertilizer on plant height, which of the following should have served as the control, and why?
No fertilizer
3 fertilizer pellets
6 fertilizer pellets
What is no fertilizer because it is not receiving any treatment?