Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
What do scientists do?
How do scientists investigate?
How do scientists support their conclusions?
100
A conclusion based on observations
What is an inference?
100
model
What is an object or idea that represents another thing?
100
Scientific investigation begins with a ___________
What is a testable question?
100
A way to find reliable answers is to do an ___________
What is an experiment?
100
Sometimes different ______________ can be drawn from the same set of data.
What is conclusions?
200
The use of scientific methods to test the hypothesis
What is an experiment?
200
hypothesis
What is a statement of what you think will happen during an investigation?
200
After defining their problem, scientists begin their investigation with ________________
What is research?
200
Name three types of investigations scientists use________, ______________, _________________
What is models, surveys, and sampling?
200
Why do scientists gather evidence.
What is to make valid conclusions?
300
Something you find out about objects, events, or living things using your senses
What is an observation?
300
evidence
What is observations that make you believe something is true?
300
Scientists make a prediction or _________ after they define their problem and do their research.
What is hypothesis?
300
______________ are helpful tools, but not actual objects.
What is a model?
300
What must scientists do to allow other scientists to replicate their experiment.
What is they must describe their experiment exactly how they did it?
400
conclusions
What is scientists use their observations to summarize what they have learned by analyzing them?
400
Scientists make observations very carefully to make sure the information they gather is ____________
What is reliable?
400
Explain what surveys are.
What is questionnaires that are given to a number of people whose answers are recorded then analyzed?
400
What happens if results are not consistent.
What is the experiment must be done again?
500
Scientists _____________ _____________ when they summarize what they have learned from analyzing their observations.
What is draw conclusions
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