Scientific Method
Measurements
Conversions
Mean, Median, Mode, & Range
Terminology
100
The act of using one or more of you senses to gather information and taking note of what occurs.
What is an observation?
100
Which line would my sub be at 16 9/10 cm?
What is grey?
100
If measured a distance to be 300cm how many meters would that be?
What is 3meters?
100
Find the RANGE of the number of points made by the basketball team.
Player #3=10 points
Player#5= 3 points
Player # 8= 7 points
Player # 12= 5 points
Player #20= 5 points
Player #24= 6 points
What is 7?
100
The sum of all the numbers in a data set divided by the number of entries in the set.
What is the Mean or Average?
200
Factors that are kept the same throughout.
What are the constants?
200
At what color line would my sub be 16 2/5cm long?
What is blue?
200
If I have a 1Liter water bottle how many mL are in my bottle?
What are 1000mL
200
Find the MODE of the number of points made by the basketball team.
Player #3=10 points
Player#5= 3 points
Player # 8= 7 points
Player # 12= 5 points
Player #20= 5 points
Player #24= 6 points
What is 5?
200
Gravitational Force
What is a law?
300
What the experimenter changes in the experiment. Unaffected by other variables.
What is the independent variable?
300
Which color line would be at 15 7/10cm?
What is orange?
300
If run a 5k, that means I ran 5km. How many meters did I run?
What is 5000km?
300
Find the MEDIAN of the number of points made by the basketball team.
Player #3=10 points
Player#5= 3 points
Player # 8= 7 points
Player # 12= 5 points
Player #20= 5 points
Player #24= 6 points
What is 5.5?
300
An explanation of observations or events that is based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations.
What is a theory?
400
Possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations.
What is a hypothesis?
400
Which line line would be at 9 1/4 inches?
What is Grey?
400
If I have a 1m sub, how many 100cm subs could I cut?
What are 1?
400
Find the MEAN of the number of points made by the basketball team.
Player #3=10 points
Player#5= 3 points
Player # 8= 7 points
Player # 12= 5 points
Player #20= 5 points
Player #24= 6 points
What is 6?
400
Internationally accepted system for measurement. Limits errors in conversions and rounding.
What are International System of Units (SI units)?
500
What are the 6 step to the scientific method in order?
Question, Research, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analyze/Conclude, Share
500
If I cut at which line would give me a sub that is 7 3/4 inch?
What is Yellow?
500
If an object is 1nm, how many mm is this object?
What is .000001mm?
500
You recently played It's Glow Time! You scored the following points: 100, 5, 50, 25, 100, 25, 0. What is the a Mean, Median, Mode, & Range of your scores?
Mean: 43.57
Median: 25
Mode: 25 & 100
Range: 100
500
The number of digits in a measurement that you know with a certain degree of reliability.
What are significant figures?