It is testable, measurable and avoids opinion
What is a good scientific question?
Where do you measure a liquid with a meniscus that curves downward?
What is the bottom of the meniscus?
The amount of space something takes up
What is volume?
1 m to cm
What is 100 cm?
The best type of graph to look at parts of a whole
What is a pie chart (or circle graph)?
Things like texture, color, and odor (but not numbers)
What are qualitative observations?
The set of steps you follow when doing an experiment.
What is a procedure (or method)?
Length is measured in this standard unit
What are meters?
1 kL to L
What is 1000 L?
The independent variable
What is "Available animals"?
A good way to present data
What is in a data table or graph?
A testable prediction
What is a hypothesis?
Temperature is measured in this
Degrees Celsius
1 mg to g
What is .001 g ?
The bacteria that had the highest amount of mutant cells
What is E. Coli?
The E in CER stands for this
What is evidence?
The variable that the scientist changes to see what will happen
What is the independent variable?
The amount of matter in an object
What is mass?
1 cm to mm
What is 10 mm?
The dependent variable
What is "the number of mutant bacterial cells"?
The U in RERUN stands for this
What is uncertainty?
The variable that is on the x-axis
What is the independent variable?
The best tool for measuring liquids
What is a graduated cylinder?
1 kg to mg
What is 1,000,000 mg?
The type of graph that shows trends over time
What is a line graph?