Vocabulary
What is Science
Scientific Knowledge
Scientific Investigations
Representing Data
100
This is the systematic study of natural events and conditions.
What is Science?
100
The natural sciences are normally divided into life science, geology, and ________________ science.
What is physical science?
100
This is a testable explanation that leads to a scientific investigation.
What is a Hypothesis?
100
An ________ is an organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions.
What is an Experiment?
100
What you use to organize and record your data when looking for relationships among the variables.
What is a data table?
200
After makings observations you begin to draw these conclusions. Hint: Think back when we used the footprints worksheet.
What is an inference?
200
The type of data the scientists record from making observations based on measurements in science?
What is quantitative data?
200
_______ are the expected results of experiments, based on a given hypothesis.
What are Predictions?
200
Name 1 of the parts that makes up scientific investigations?
What is a variable, hypothesis, or data?
200
Information recorded in data tables include ______, ______, and _________.
What are times, amounts, and frequencies?
300
________ is evidence gained through observations and measurements and scientists use these to support scientific explanations.
What is Empirical Evidence?
300
This is an act of noting and recording data that can be detected with an instrument or the senses.
What is an observation?
300
This is a well supported explanation about the natural world.
What is a Theory?
300
The variables that remain the same for all trial in an investigation so that the experiment can be VALID.
What are the constant variable?
300
A _______ graph is used to display and compare data in a number of separate categories.
What is a bar Graph?
400
A well-supported explanation of the natural world (hint: explains WHY something happens).
What is theory?
400
DAILY DOUBLE: Name three reliable sources that can be used when conducting research
What are the Internet (.org, .gov, .edu websites), recent encyclopedia and textbooks, or Scientific Journals and publications?
400
These are 3 types of scientific explanations.
What are Theories, Models, and Laws?
400
This is information gathered by observation or experimentation that can be used in calculating or reasoning.
Data
400
The axis that is used to plot the responding/outcome/variable.
What is the y axis?
500
Describes a basic principle of nature that always occurs under certain conditions (hint: explains HOW something happens).
What is a law?
500
________ __________ include descriptions of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures.
What is Qualitative Observations?
500
A scientific ________ is a representation of something in the natural world?
What is a model?
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
In some graphs, data displayed on the horizontal axis are the values of the ___________ variable.
What is the independent variable?
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