Scientific Attitudes
Experimental Design
Science and the Natural World
Attitudes Continued
Bonus
100
When a person allows personal opinions to, values, or tastes to influence a conclusion that person is using _____________ thinking.
What is subjective?
100
The facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations are called?
What is data?
100
This is the process of grouping observations by things that are similar
What is classifying?
100
This is the attitude of a scientist who wants to know more about the topic they are studying.
What is curiosity?
100
Drawing a conclusion based on too little data?
What is faulty reasoning?
200
Having an attitude of doubt. This is also the opposite of open-mindedness
What is skepticism?
200
These can be changed in an experiment
What is a variable?
200
These can be obtained by using the 5 senses or the use of scientific tools.
What are observations?
200
Good scientists must work with ____________ these are the rules that allow them to know the difference between right and wrong.
What is ethics
200
This shows the relationship between the independent and dependent variable. It is the 3rd step in the scientific method
What is a hypothesis?
300
This comes from a person's likes and dislikes.
What is personal bias?
300
This is the variable that the scientist changes in order to test the hypothesis.
What is manipulated variable?
300
These type of observations do not use numbers, only descriptions.
What is qualitative observations
300
This type of thinking/reasoning deals with facts only.
What is objective thinking.
300
This is a summary of your experiment. It discusses whether your or not your hypothesis was correct and any other important information.
What is conclusion?
400
This is a mistake in the design of an experiment that makes a particular result more likely.
What is experimental bias?
400
This must stay the same in an experiment so that it is clear how the independent variable affects the dependent variable.
What is the control variable?
400
These types of observations use numbers.
What is a quantitative observation?
400
_________________reasoning uses a general idea to make a specific observation
What is deductive?
400
You can collect data using these three things.
What is graph, pictures, and table
500
This stems from the culture in which a person grows up.
What is cultural bias?
500
A well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations.
What is scientific theory?
500
This is a guess about what will happen in the future based on observations and past experience
What is predication?
500
This type of reasoning uses specific observations to make generalizations
What is inductive?
500
How does the type of fertilizer affect the size of a plant? is an example of a ______________
What is Scientific Title
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