Experimental Method
Statistics
Decision-Making
Terms
Mystery
100
The group that does not receive the experimental treatment.
What is a control group?
100
A model train.
What is a physical model?
100
The first stage of the decision making process.
What is gathering information?
100
Principles and standards; may be different for different people.
What are values?
100
Good scientists demonstrate this habit of mind when they do not believe everything they are told.
What is skepticism?
200
The factor of interest.
What is a variable?
200
Scientists use statistics to ______ and _______ data.
analyze
200
The second stage of the decision making process.
What is considering values?
200
A logical statement about what will happen in an experiment if the hypothesis is correct.
What is a prediction?
200
Scientists use these when performing an experiment is impossible.
What are coorelations?
300
The step performed by possibly taking a photograph.
What is observing?
300
The average weight of a turtle.
What is the mean?
300
The third stage of the decision making process.
What is exploring consequences?
300
It is a group of individuals used to represent the population.
What is a sample?
300
A good experiment contains these two things.
What are testing one variable and a control?
400
The characteristic describing the difference between a good hypothesis and a guess.
What is logical?
400
The chance that a volcano will erupt.
What is a risk?
400
A value when one considers what will add to the understanding of the natural world.
What is a Scientific Value?
400
A type of model that could be a flow chart showing how carbon flows through the environment and organisms.
What is a conceptual model?
400
These models can represent how a system works, can be useful when using multiple variables, and are used to create digital images.
What is a mathematical model?
500
Curiosity is a trait scientists must have so that they can do this for society?
What is expand our knowledge?
500
The chance that an event will happen.
What is probability?
500
The type of value when one considers the water resources of an area.
What is an Environmental Value?
500
Maps and charts are examples.
What is a graphical model?
500
A scientist must have this quality to be creative.
What is imagination?
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