Gathering Scientific Data
Organizing Data
Mathematics in Science
Technology in Science
Miscellaneous
100
Any use of the senses, such as seeing or hearing, to gather information about the world.
What is observations?
100
The first step that students should take after gathering information from an experiment is.
What is creating a data table?
100
It is a representation of an object or system.
What is a model?
100
Any location outside a laboratory where experiments occur is called.
What is the field?
200
Descriptive information that is not expressed as a number.
What is qualitative observation?
200
The factor that the experimenter changes.
What is the independent variable?
200
It is the use of tools, materials, and processes to meet human needs.
What is technology?
200
Principles of proper scientific conduct.
What is scientific ethics?
300
Expressed in terms of quantity or numbers.
What is quantitative observation?
300
The factor that changes in response to the independent variable.
What is dependent variable?
300
It indicates the precision of the tool used by demonstrating the certainty of measurements made with the tool.
What is significant figures?
300
A technological tool that has revolutionized science and the world.
What is a computer?
300
When you graph data, you can identify a pattern.
What is a trend?
400
A rough or approximate calculation.
What is an estimate?
400
It is a reference line that forms on one side of a graph.
What is an axis?
400
It demands that scientists communicate their findings to other scientists and to the public.
What is scientific ethics?
400
Any graph that is not a straight line is called.
What is a nonlinear graph?
500
Act as an extension of a scientists senses.
What are technological tools?
500
To find this, subtract the smallest value of a single variable from the largest value of the same variable.
What is the range?
500
It is found by calculating the sume of the data and then dividing the sum by the number of data points.
What is mean?
500
It is the number that appears most often in a data set.
What is mode?
500
It is the value of the middle item when data are arranged in order by size.
What is median?
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