Scientific Method
The Nature of Science
Vocabulary
Measurement in Science
Application
100
An educated guess or possible answers to a questions.
What is a Hypothesis
100
Using one or more of your sense to gather information
What is observing
100
Making a statement or a claim about what will happen in the future based on past experiences
What is predict
100
All scientist use this modern version of the metric system so that they are able to compare data.
What is the International system of Units (SI System)
100
The classroom walls are yellow Quantitative or qualitative?
What is Quantitative
200
Ask a question Write a hypothesis Make a prediction Perform an experiment Draw a conclusion All describes what process......
What is the scientific method
200
observations that deal with numbers
What is quantitative observations
200
The grouping together of items that are alike
What is classify
200
Length is measured in.....
What is Meters
200
There are 21 students in the room. Quantitative or Qualitative?
What is Quantitative
300
The group that is being tested
What is the experimental group
300
Observation that describes without numbers
What is qualitative observation
300
Comparing an object or a process to a standard
What is measure
300
Mass is the amount of matter in an object. What is the SI unit of Mass?
What is Grams
300
Observation: You ride through a town that has a lot of broken buildings and uprooted trees. Make an inference.
What is whatever I say it is
400
In an experiment, the group that nothing is done to
What is the control group
400
When you explain or interpret the things that you observe
What is infer
400
This organizes data into a picture that can be analyzed
What is a graph
400
Volume is the amount of space an object takes up. What is the SI unit of Volume?
What is liters
400
Smithers thinks that a special juice will increase the productivity of workers. He creates two groups of 50 workers each and assigns each group the same task (in this case, they're supposed to staple a set of papers). Group A is given the special juice to drink while they work. Group B is not given the special juice. After an hour, Smithers counts how many stacks of papers each group has made. Group A made 1,587 stacks, Group B made 2,113 stacks. What is the independent Variable?
What is the Special juice
500
In an experiment, the variable being tested or manipulated
What is independent variable
500
A way of learning about the natural world
What is Science
500
This graph display data that show how one variable changes in response to another variable
What is a line graph
500
This is a measurement of how much mass is contained in a given volume.
What is Density
500
Homer notices that his shower is covered in a strange green slime. His friend Barney tells him that coconut juice will get rid of the green slime. Homer decides to check this this out by spraying half of the shower with coconut juice. He sprays the other half of the shower with water. After 3 days of "treatment" there is no change in the appearance of the green slime on either side of the shower. What is the Control Group
What is the half of the shower sprayed with water
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