Models
Systems
Observations/Inferences
Controlled Experiments
Data Analysis
100
A representation a system, idea, or process that shows relationships between parts.
What is a model?
100
A set of interrelated parts that function together in a meaningful way.
What is a system?
100
Information collected with the five senses.
What is an observation?
100
The letters in COOVAAT stand for this phrase.
What is Change Only One Variable At A Time?
100
A tool for storing and organizing data as you collect it during an experiment.
What is a data table.
200
This photograph illustrates what kind of model?
What is a physical model?
200
A smaller set of parts that function together within a larger system.
What is a subsystem.
200
The sky is cloudy today.
What is an observation?
200
Name the variables that you should include when your write your experimental question.
What are the Independent Variable and the Dependent Variable.
200
The sum of all the measurements you took during a set of trials, divided by the number of trials is this.
What is an Average?
300
This picture illustrates what kind of model?
What is a conceptual model?
300
The human body is an example of one of these.
What is a System?
300
A logical conclusion based on observations.
What is an inference?
300
What you think the answer to your experimental question is likely to be, based on your experience and background research.
What is the Hypothesis?
300
When the data in your set of trials is consistent, the data set is said to be this.
What is a precise.
400
Your water works scientific diagram is an example of this.
What is a conceptual model.
400
The skeleton inside the human body is an example of this.
What is a subsystem?
400
That cloudy sky makes me think it might rain this afternoon.
What is an inference?
400
In an investigation testing the effect of temperature on the ripening speed of bananas, the age of the bananas is what kind of variable?
What is a controlled variables?
400
A data set with a large range is said to be this.
What is variable.
500
In this picture, the roots of the tree represent a ....
What is a subsystem.
500
A system whose inner workings we are hidden, or impossible to observe with the tools and technology of the day is a...
What is a Black Box.
500
An inference that you support with evidence and logical reasoning in a scientific argument.
What is a claim?
500
You designed an experiment to test the effect of snow depth on how easy it is to ski down a hill. In your design you compare skis to snowboards. What did you do wrong?
What is having two independent variables?
500
A conclusion based on a data set with high precision, low variability, and very few outliers is said to have a high degree of this.
What is validity.