Science Lab
A way to stay safe in the lab if you have long hair.
What is pulling long hair back?
An educated guess
What is a hypotheisis?
The variable that changes in an experiment is called the
What is a dependent variable?
This is the group in the plant experiment where Ms. W wants to use apple juice to feed the plant to make it grow bigger. Its used to make a comparison.
What is the control group?
An explanation backed by results obtained from repeated tests or experiments is a scientific
What is a law?
A scientific tool used to measure mass
What is a triple beam balance?
A short explanation of what the data is telling us and what trends occurred
What is an analysis?
The variable that changes because of what is being tested.
What is a dependent variable?
Sponge Bob saw an ad about Clean o Detergent. It claimed to work better than all teh other detergents. Sponge Bob bought it and washed his dirty pants in the detergent. After he felt there was no difference in how clean the pants were compared to the regular detergent he uses.
The independent variable in this situation is?
What is the type of detergent?
Injecting your opinion into a scientific conclusions or observations is called
What is a bias?
A scientific tool used to measure liquid volume.
What is a graduated cylinder?
An explanation of how the data and observatipns collected support your hypothesis or not
What ia a conclusion?
The variables in an experiment that stay the same
What is a control variable?
Sponge Bob saw an ad about Clean o Detergent. It claimed to work better than all teh other detergents. Sponge Bob bought it and washed his dirty pants in the detergent. After he felt there was no difference in how clean the pants were compared to the regular detergent he uses.
The dependent variable is
What is how clean the pants are?
The variable that is changed in an experiment in order to test it is called a
What is an independent variable?
The type of instrument used to measure temperature
What is a thermometer?
Conclusions to scientific experiments should be based on
What is data and observations?
In a controlled experiment the number of variables that are tested at a time is
What is one?
Sponge Bob saw an ad about Clean o Detergent. It claimed to work better than all teh other detergents. Sponge Bob bought it and washed his dirty pants in the detergent. After he felt there was no difference in how clean the pants were compared to the regular detergent he uses.
Sponge Bob's conclusion should be
What is that the detergent didn't wash better?
To be a valid scientific experiment, the results must be
What is repeatable?
A scientific tool used to measure the distance from one point to another
What is a metric ruler?
A hypothesis is written in a specific format that is
What is If... Then... Because?
The reason why only one variable is test at a time in a controlled experiment.
What is so we know what is causing the change?
Homer noticed that there was a green slime on the shower walls. His friend told him to use coconut spray to get rid of the slime. He sprayed half the shower for a week. After a week he noticed that the half sprayed appeared to have no slime.
Homer is testing
What is does coconut spray get rid of slime?
Every graph needs
What is a title, label axi, consistently numbered axi, circled data points plotted and a best fit line