Scientific Method: Sea Butterfly Example
Sea butterflies produce a chemical that deters predators.
What is the Hypothesis?
The amount of gravitational force on an object.
What is Weight?
das is a unit used to measure this
What is time?
A state of matter that has a fixed volume but not a fixed shape.
What is a Liquid?
300 m has this many sig figs
What is 1?
Why do amphipods abduct sea butterflies if they slow them down?
What is the Question?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is Mass?
There are 10 of these in one meter
What are decimeters (dm)?
A state of matter that usually has the highest particle energy.
What is a Gas?
3.40 +10 = (use correct sig figs and answer in standard AND scientific notation)
What is 10 or 1 x 10^1
Whether or not the pellets contained sea butterfly extract
What is the Independent Variable?
The amount of space an object occupies.
What is Volume?
There are 100 grams in one of these
What are hectograms (hg)?
A state of matter that usually has the lowest density.
What is a Gas?
34 x 200 = (use correct sig figs and answer in standard AND scientific notation)
What is 7000 or 7 x 10^3
The food pellets that did not contain sea butterfly extract.
What is the Control?
The amount of mass in a specific volume.
What is Density?
This is how many joules are in one GJ
What is 109 J?
A state of matter that usually has the lowest temperature.
What is a Solid?
If the accepted density was 3.40 g/mL and the calculated density was 2.90 g/mL this is the % error
What is 15%
Whether or not the predators ate the pellets.
What is the Dependent Variable?
A measure of the average thermal energy in an object.
What is Temperature?
One of these is equivalent to 10-6 liters
What is a microliter (μL)?
A state of matter that has higher density than another state of matter only when the substance is water.
What is a liquid?
If a reaction should have generated 41.508 g of product, but experimentally only generated 40.00 g of product, what is the percent error?
What is 3.63% (not 3.64%, don't round too early)