Vocab
The process of obtaining information by using the senses.
What is Observation?
This is fake science.
What is Pseudoscience?
What plant was our control when doing the Gizmos?
What is plant A?
An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions.
What is Experiment?
This is the hardest rock.
What are diamonds?
Any factor that can change in an experiment, observation, or model.
What is Variable?
The study of the natural world.
What is science?
This is the dependent variable of the cars with dimples experiment.
What is the gas mileage?
This is the hottest planet.
What is Venus?
This causes the seasons to change on earth.
What is the tilt of the Earth on its axis?
A testable idea or explanation that leads to scientific investigation.
What is Hypothesis?
These are the three steps to evaluate scientific explanations.
What is Empirical Evidence, logic, and repeated testing?
This is the independent variable of the elephant vs. mouse experiment.
What is "if there was a mouse or not"?
In a scientific investigation, the factor that is deliberately manipulated.
What is Independent Variable?
NASA stands for this.
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
Information gathered by observation or experimentation that can be used in calculating or reasoning.
What is Data?
These are the 6 traits that every scientific observer must have.
What is skepticism, objectivity, curiosity, carful observation, logic, and creativity?
This is the dependent variable of the walking vs. running in the rain experiment.
What is the amount of water that got on them?
This is the amount of eyes a bee has.
What is 5?
This is the rarest blood type.
What is AB negative?
In a scientific investigation, the factor that changes as a result of manipulation of one or more independent variables.
These are the two things that characterize the practice of science.
What is Empirical Evidence and Community Consensus?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY In an experiment that involves testing the best way to dissolve salt in water, if we were to change the heat of the water, we would be changing this variable.
What is the Independent variable?
The part of an experiment for which the independent variable has not been changed; used to determine reliability and significance of the experimental results.
What is Control?
The type of grass that grows the tallest.
What is bamboo?