Scientific Method
What step do you do right after asking a question?
Research the topic
Three types of variables?
Independent, Dependent, Control
______ must be tied back.
Long Hair
Arm
In an average meal, you eat about __________ km of DNA
150,000
Information collected during your experiment is called?
Data
Which variable depends on the independent variable?
Dependent
True or False. You can eat and drink during a lab.
False
The bottom portion of the compound microscope. It's function is to support the weight of the microscope.
The Base
Analysis of DNA from museum specimens revealed that the dodo was a type of what?
Pigeon
What is a hypothesis?
An educated guess about your topic.
Which variable is kept the same throughout the experiment?
Control
True or False. You should tell a teacher that you broke a glass container while performing a lab.
True
The portion of the microscope is flat and is where the specimen is to be observed when placed on a slide.
Stage
___________ and other echinoderms are the closest relatives of the vertebrates.
Sea Urchins/Starfish
"I think adding table salt to boiling water will cause the water to boil at a higher rate" is an example of what step of the scientific method?
Forming a hypothesis
Good science experiments have _______ independent variables.
1
___________ and an apron should be worn when performing most experiments.
Safety goggles
Also known as the ocular lens, is the lens which is used to view a specimen in a compound microscope.
Eyepiece
The ___________ – a brain region involved in spatial navigation – is bigger than normal in London taxi drivers
Hippocampus
What is the correct order of the scientific method?
Problem, research, hypothesis, experiment, record data, conclusion, share/repeat.
If you were conducting an experiment to see if your heart rate changes when you increase the volume of music, what would be the dependent variable?
Heart Rate
Sean decides to put a dead frog in his lab partner's lab coat. This freaks his partner out and causes him to spill a deadly chemical everywhere. What lab safety rule did Sean break?
No Horseplay
It is used to adjust the amount of light that comes through the aperture of rotating disk with different sized holes.
Diaphram
Our brains form a _________ new connections every second of our lives.
Million