What is a factor that changes a result of the manipulated variable.
100
the amount of years ago the first people arrived in Minnesota
What is 10-12 thousand?
100
what are factors that can change in an experiment?
What is a variable
100
the weapon of choice for these big game hunters- also known as Paleo-Indians
What is a Atatle
100
the junction of the big fork river and the rainy river was once one of the main travel sections of the vast trade network. _______is one of the items traded here from other parts of the country.
What is obsidian?
200
what is away of learning about the world though observation and reasoning?
What is science
200
the estimated number of people buried at the Grand Mound?
What is 2-5,000
200
an interpretation based on observations and prior knowledge?
What is inferring?
200
the time period of 500bc and 500ad in Minnesota
What is the Laurel Period
200
archaeology indicates that the Blackduck may have been ancestors of the Cree, Cheyenne, Backfoot, _______, and Objibwe.
What is dakota
300
what refers to the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the evidence they gather?
What is scientific inquiry
300
pottery created by the Laurel Indians is different than the Pottery created by the Woodland (blackduck) Indians. Describe ONE of the differences.
What is Laurel Indians has pointed bottom and the Blackduck Pottery is Rough and Rounded
300
an experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time.
What is a controlled variable?
300
The metal discovered by the Shield or Eastern Archaic Indians
What is Copper?
300
in 1933, Albert Jenks of the _____ did the first scientific excavation at the site.
What is University of MN
400
The process of forecasting what will happen?
What is predicting
400
Mounds built by the Laurel culture were usually located near________ settlements.
What is fishing
400
one variable that is purposely changed to test the hypothesis.
What is a manipulated variable?
400
There were once ______________mounds in MN.
What is 11,000
400
in 1976 the _______opened a visitor center at the Grand Mound.
What is the MN Historical Society
500
what are the steps to scientific method?
What is question, hypothesis, experiment, collect/interpret data, draw conclusion, communicate
500
good ideas were traded and spread along the ________network.
What is trade?
500
the process of using one or more of your senses to gather information.
What is observing?
500
7000 years ago the _________underwent a major change becoming much warmer and dryer.
What is climate
500
The Grand Mound is on the three ________ mounds in North America