Experiments
A logical method of problem solving.
What is the scientific method?
The amount of matter an object contains.
What is the mass?
The volume of a block with length of 4.0 cm, width of 2.0cm, and height of 1.0 cm.
What is 8 cm3?
33.5 cs in seconds.
What is 3.35 x 10-1 seconds?
formed to answer a question prior to experimentation.
What is the hypothesis?
The amount of space an object occupies.
What is the volume?
The measurement of the graduated cylinder with a volume reading 30ml after an object of 9 cm3 is dropped into it.
What is 39 ml?
4.5 x 10-3 ML in dL
What is 4.5 x 104 dL?
formed based on the results of the experiment.
What is a conclusion?
The distance between two points.
What is the length?
The mass of the water that was added to a beaker when its initial mass was 52.0 g and the final mass was 76.0 g.
What is 24.0 grams?
3500 mm in km.
What is 3.5 x 10-3km?
What are variables?
The average kinetic energy of an object or substance?
What is the temperature?
1.6 x 105 in decimal notation
What is 160,000
6.7 x 105 micrograms in grams
what is 6.7 x 10-1g?
A variable that is held constant in an experiment.
What is the control?
What is the balance?
5,000 in scientific notation.
What is 5 x 103?
.22 grams to kg
What is 2.2 x 10-4 kg?
This number of variables are allowed to change in a good experiment.
What is two?
The basic unit of length.
What is a meter?
0.0056 in scientific notation.
What is 5.6 x 10-3?
1.52mm in cm.
What is 1.52 x 10-1cm?
The variable changed by the scientist.
What is the independent variable?
The basic unit of volume.
What is a liter?
9.7 x 10-2 in decimal notation.
0.097
260,000 minutes into days.
What is 1.8 x 102 days?
Changes as a result of the experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
Another unit of measurement that equals 1 ml.
What is 1 cm3?
The volume of water, in liters, a metal bar with a length of 6.0 cm, a width of 3.0cm, and a height of 2.0 cm would displace.
What is 3.6 x 10-2 L?
A scientist wants to find out if the temperature of a room affects the behavior of adolescents. He/She turns the thermostat up to 90. The kids lie on the floor and start sweating. Name the independent and dependent variables.
Independent- thermostat to 90
Dependent- lying on the floor, sweating
The basic unit to measure temperature.
What is Celcius?
0.0340 Mg to micrograms.
What are 3.40x 1010 micrograms?
A scientist wants to know if sugary soda extinguishes a fire faster than water. The dependent variable and independent variables in this experiment are:
Dependent: What is the time it takes to extinguish fire?
Independent: What is water or sugary soda?
The basic unit for measuring mass.
What is a gram?
The tallest team member's height in millimeters from inches.
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