A prediction within a scientific experiment that is in the if__________, then____________format.
What is a hypothesis?
100
This graph is used to display data of something as a whole and is in percentages. (ex: how many students in this class ride the bus home, how many students in this class are picked up, and how many students in this class walk home).
What is a pie chart?
100
This variable is the one that is "changed" in an experiment. (Hint: this variable labeled and found on the x-axis).
What is independent variable?
100
The term used when one makes a conclusion based on what they have observed with their senses.
What is inference?
100
An explanation of a natural phenomenon that is widely accepted and will rarely be changed. (ex:gravity).
What is a scientific law?
200
The part a scientific experiment in which testing is carried out.
What is procedure?
200
This type of graph is used when you have data that "comparing" things. (ex: how many of your skittles in your bag are red, how many are blue, how many are green, etc.).
What is a bar graph?
200
In an experiment, the group that does not actually receive the testing but instead receives a placebo, sugar, or water pill. (ex: an experiment testing the effects of a new medicine).
What is the control group?
200
The term for data that is used to describe numerical (number) data. (ex: there are 3 bunnies in my yard)
What is quantitative data?
200
Reproduction, passing down of traits, organization, response to stimuli, one or more cells, homeostasis, metabolism, etc.
What is the Characteristics of Life?
300
The list of items you will use during a scientific experiment.
What is the "materials"?
300
The area on a graph where the independent variables are listed.
What is the x-axis or on the bottom of a graph?
300
A variable that stays the same within an experiment.
What is a constant?
300
The term used to describe one who is "observing" or using their senses to collect information.
What is observation?
300
Composed of 5 general steps that one uses to conduct an investigation.
What is the scientific method?
400
The last step of the scientific experiment in which the results will be reported.
What is the conclusion?
400
A type of graph that is used to display data "over time". (ex: how many e-hall passes you will use per day over a sixth-month period).
What is a line graph?
400
This variable is the one that is "measured" and "depends" on the other variable being changed. (Hint: it is on the y-axis).
What is dependent variable?
400
The term used to "describe" something. (ex: the bunnies in my yard are white and brown).
What is qualitative data?
400
A scientific idea or explanation that has been tested many, many times with the same conclusion and widely agreed to be true BUT can also be changed if another experimenter yields a different conclusion for the same experiment.
What is a scientific theory?
500
The results of the scientific method are _______-__________ before they are published in journals.
What is peer-reviewed?
500
The area on the graph where the dependent variable is listed.
What is the y-axis or on the left side of the graph?
500
This group actually receives the testing within an experiment. (ex: an experiment testing a new medicine where the group receives the medicine).
What is the experimental group?
500
The system of units to measure within the scientific world that is universally used to ensure all scientists throughout the world are replicating experiments precisely and are using the same quantities of measurement.