What do Scientist Do?
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To study the natural world through observations, asking questions, gathering information, analyzing data, summarizing results, drawing conclusions, and communicating results.
What is investigate?
Used to make close observations
What is a hand lens?
Changed by the scientist.
What is the variable?
A hypothesis must be testable. Which hypothesis is testable?
a. Blue is the best color.
b. Summer is nicer than fall.
c. Dogs are better than cats.
d. A beagle can jump higher than a Persian cat.
What is d. A beagle can jump higher than a Persian cat.
A testable answer to a scientific question
What is a hypothesis?
Think ahead about what might happen.
What is Predict?
Used to measure mass.
What is a balance scale?
Factors that must be kept the same so you can see how the one thing you change (variable) affects the result
What are controls?
Which one of the questions below is a testable question?
a. What is gravity?
b. How many stars are in the sky?
c. Why does the Earth orbit the Sun?
d. What color candle burns the fastest?
What is d. What color candle burns the fastest?
An area of study that deals with the natural world
What is science?
Place things into definite categories by common properties.
What is classify?
Used to measure volume
What is a graduated cylinder?
A group that is untreated by the factor being tested and serves as a reference for comparison
What is the control group?
A view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
What is an opinion?
One of a number of repetitions of an experiment
What is a trial?
Use reasoning to draw conclusions from your observations
What is infer?
Used to measure temperature
What is a thermometer?
The step by step process that scientist follow when completing a science experiment/investigation.
What is a procedure?
The practice of informing, educating, sharing wonderment, and raising awareness of science-related topics.
What is communicate?
Information to decide whether a hypothesis is or is not supported
What is evidence?
To break something down into its parts to study it carefully.
What is analyze?
Used to measure length, width, and height
What is a ruler, tape measure, or meter stick?
A testable question.
What is the first step of the Scientific Method?
Using your senses in order to gain information
What is observe?
A test done to gather evidence
What is an experiment?