Vocabulary
Tools & Models in Science
Organizing Your Data
Analyzing Your Data
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100

A summary of many experimental results and observations.

What is a law?

100

Kelvin is the SI unit of measurement for __________________.

What is temperature?

100
The smooth line in a graph that includes some, but not all, of the data points in a graph to show the pattern of data is called the line of _______ _____?
What is best fit?
100
To find this, look for the number that occurs the most in a data set.
What is mode?
100
The mode of [2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 6, 1] is _____.
What is 4 and 5?
200
A measure of the size of an object or region in three-dimensional space.
What is volume?
200
This model is made up of mathematical equations and data.
What is a mathematical model?
200
The variable that changes depending on the other variable is called the __________ _________.
What is the dependent variable?
200
To find this, put the data points in order from least to greatest and find the data point in the middle.
What is the median?
200
The mode of [2, 18, -5, 30, 22, 13] is _______.
What is no mode?
300
The ratio of the mass to a substance to the volume of a substance.
What is density?
300
True or False: A theory tells you what happens, not why something happens.
What is false?
300
A graph in which the relationship between the independent variable and the dependent variable can be shown with a straight line is called a ______________ ___________.
What is a linear graph?
300

True or False: It is possible for a data set to have no modes or to have multiple modes.

True.

300
The median of [15, 21, 12, 18, 21, 10] is ______.
What is 16.5?
400
One of two or more reference lines that mark the borders of a graph?
What is an axis?
400
This model tries to put many ideas together to explain or summarize something.
What is a conceptual model?
400
Any graph in which the relationship between the variables cannot be shown with a straight line is called a __________________ ___________.
What is a nonlinear graph?
400
To find this, add all of the data points together, and then divide by the number of data points.
What is the mean?
400
The mean of [5, 6, 10, 7] is ____.
What is 7?
500
In an experiment, the factor that is deliberately manipulated.
What is an independent variable?
500
This SI unit is a measurement of volume.
What is a cubic meter?
500
The five main parts of a graph are _________________/
What are axes, range, scale, data points, and labels?
500

You can find the __________ of a line by dividing the "rise" by "run," a.k.a. "rise over run."

What is slope?

500
The slope of data points A (3, 2) and B (5, 1) is:
What is -1/2?
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