Column 1
Process used to investigate what is happening around us in order to solve problems or answer questions.
What is Science?
The application of science to make useful products and tools, such as computers.
What is technology?
A prediction or statement that can be tested and may be formed by prior knowledge, any previous observations, and new information.
What is a hypothesis?
An electrical device that can be programmed to store, retrieve, and process data.
What is a computer?
Variable that stays the same during an experiment.
What is a constant?
A set of controlled steps carried out to discover, test, or demonstrate something.
What is an experiment?
Gathering information through the use of one or more senses.
What is an observation?
Factor that is being measured during an experiment.
What is a dependent variable?
Ways to solve problems that can include step-by-step plans, making models, and carefully though-out experiments.
What are scientific methods?
What is an independent variable?
Answers scientific questions through observations.
What is descriptive research?
State the fourth step in the scientific method.
What is Analyzing Your Data?
List three ways to record data in a science journal.
What are graphs, tables, and charts?
Represent something that is too big, too small, too dangerous, too time consuming, or too expensive to observe directly.
What is a model?
List four skills used in science.
What are measuring, interpreting, classifying, and observing?
Sample that is treated like other experimental groups except that the independent variable is not applied to it.
What is a control?
The use of cellular phones and computers to communicate with each other.
What is information technology?
Tell why modern communication systems are important to scientist.
What is making discoveries and findings more efficient, and faster?
A method used to answer scientific questions by testing a hypothesis through the use of a series of carefully controlled steps.
What is experimental research design?
Tell what predictions of what may happen during an experiment may be based off of.
What is prior knowledge?
Tell why your experiment isn't a failure even if your data doesn't support your initial hypothesis.
What is modifying your hypothesis, and using the data you obtained to retest or conduct more experiments?
State the system of measurements scientists around the world use.
What is the International System of Units?
What are more accurate results?
If 3 or more variables were changed in an experiment, tell what would happen to the accuracy of the experiment.
What is less accurate results due to not knowing what variable or variables caused the change in the results of the experiment?
Tell what you can do to improve an experiment's accuracy.
What is conducting multiple trials of an experiment?