Vocabulary
Study of Science
Measurement
Variables
Miscellaneous
100
Description of how close a measurement is to the actual or true value
What is accuracy?
100
Scientist that studies fossils
What is a paleontologist?
100
parts that must be added when creating a graph
What are titles, labels, and units of measurements
100
What is the cue question for the constant variable?
What is, "What is staying the same?"
100
What you use to record and display your data when looking for relationships among the variables.
What is a data table or graph?
200
The same scientist repeats his/her experiment
What is repetition?
200
The type of data the scientists record from making observations based on MEASUREMENTS and NUMBERS in science?
What is quantitative data?
200
when a different scientist repeats the steps to an experiment
What is replication?
200
What is the cue question for the dependent variable?
What is, "What am I measuring?"
200
After making observations and inferences you create this which is a possible explanation of your observations and can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
300
The investigation and exploration of natural events that occur in the world around us.
What is science?
300
A representation of something in the natural world, typically too small or large to study up close.
What is a model?
300
The measure of the amount of space an object takes up and its base unit.
What is volume and liter?
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
If your hypothesis is proven correct this is the next step in the process.
What is repeat the test?
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 (as you will be doing for science fair).
What are the Internet (.org, .gov, .edu websites), encyclopedia, nonfiction books, scientific periodicals/articles, or publications of other scientists' work?
400
The scientist that discovered the law of gravity
Who is Isaac Newton
400
Name the control to the following experiment. How does the amount of water effect the growth of a plant?
What is no water?
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
The question to be asked when finding the independent variable.
What is being Changed or Manipulated?
500
All of the data collected from experiments and observations by scientist.
What is it is Empirical Evidence
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
Three science safety rules.
Many possible answers.
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