Vocabulary
What is Science
Scientific Knowledge
Scientific Investigations
Representing Data
100
It is the systematic study of natural events and conditions.
What is Science?
100
The natural sciences are normally divided into 3 three major branches including life, geology, and ________________.
What is physical science?
100
In this type of investigation, scientists control different variables under precise conditions within laboratories.
What is an Experiment?
100
This is the process of obtaining information by using the senses.
What is Observation?
100
What you use to organize and record your data when looking for relationships among the variables.
What is a data table?
200
It includes all the data that people gather and test to support and evaluate scientific explanations.
What is Empirical Evidence?
200
The type of data the scientists record from making observations based on measurements in science?
What is quantitative data?
200

These are conclusions drawn from observations.

What are inferences?

200
This is an idea or explanation that leads to scientific investigations.
What is a Hypothesis?
200

This is the type of graph is best for showing how something changes over time.

What is a Line Graph?

300
This is an explanation for some phenomenon that is based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning. It is supported by a large quantity of evidence.
What is a Theory
300
A representation of something in the natural world, typically too small or large to study up close.
What is a model?
300
These are often modified but are rarely rejected.
What are theories?
300

In an experiment testing plant growth with different amounts of sunlight, plant height would be this variable.

What is the dependent variable?

300

This type of graph shows parts of a whole, often as slices of a circle

What is a pie chart?

400
This is a variable that is deliberately manipulated.
What is an independent variable?
400
DAILY DOUBLE: Name three reliable sources that can be used when conducting research
What are the Internet (.org, .gov, .edu websites), recent encyclopedias, scientific articles, or publications of other scientists' work?
400
Scientific journals are great sources of information and are said to be this?
What is a Reliable Source?
400
Name three possible controls in the following experiment. How does the amount of water effect the growth of a plant?
What is Plant Type, Pot Size, Amount of Light and Soil type.
400
The axis that is used to plot the responding/outcome/result variable.
What is the y axis?
500
This is the process of obtaining information by using the senses.
What is observation?
500
These include beliefs or practices that are mistakenly believed to be based on scientific principles.
What is Pseudoscience?
500

Scientists share their methods, data, and conclusions with others so experiments can be repeated and verified. This process is called this.

What is peer review?

500
DAILY DOUBLE: How does parachute size effect the rate of a falling object? The independent variable. The dependent variable.
What is the size of the parachute? What is the rate of a falling object?
500

This goes on the x-axis of a graph.

What is the independent variable?
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