Scientific Skills
Scientific Attitudes
The Scientific Method
Scientific Reasoning
The Experiment
100
Using one or more of you senses to gather information.
What is observing
100
Coming up with inventive ways to solve problems.
What is creativity?
100
A method used by scientist or anyone to solve a problem.
What is the scientific method?
100
Means that personal feelings have entered into a decision or conclusion.
What is subjective?
100
Anything that changes in an experiment.
What is a variable?
200
Descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers.
What is qualitative observation.
200
Having an attitude of doubt.
What is skepticism?
200
This must be done before forming a hypothesis?
What is research the problem?
200
Means that you make a decision on evidence.
What is objective?
200
The variable that is changed by the person conducting the experiment.
What is the manipulated or independent variable?
300
Making a statement about what will happen in the future based on past experience.
What is predicting?
300
A bias that stems from a persons likes or dislikes.
What is personal bias?
300
This is a statement about if the hypothesis is true or false?
What is the conclusion?
300
A way of explaining things by starting with a general idea and then applying the idea to a specific situation.
What is deductive reasoning?
300
Julie conducted an experiment to see how the temperature of water would affect plant growth. The different temperatures of the water is
What is the independent variable?
400
Creating representations of complex objects or processes.
What is making models?
400
A mistake in the design of an experiment.
What is experimental bias?
400
This is used to test the hypothesis.
What is the procedure or experiment?
400
Turtles have shells. They must use their shells for protection.
What is inductive reasoning?
400
During Julies experiment she kept the water in one plant at room temperature.
What is the control?
500
Explaining or interpreting things you observe,
What is inferring?
500
The rules that enable people to know right from wrong.
What is ethics?
500
Information gathered in an experiment is used for this purpose.
What is to form a conclusion?
500
Dinner is at 6:00p.m. It is 6:00p.m. So dinner is ready.
What is a deductive reasoning?
500
Julie measured the growth of the plants each week.
What is the dependent variable?
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