Scientific Method
What is the first step of the scientific method?
Observe or ask a question. I will accept both.
Name a producer.
Grass, trees, plants, etc.
Name the specific species of fish that bears eat in Yellowstone.
Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout.
What is the name of the star in the middle of our solar system?
The Sun.
Name one lab safety rule.
No eating or drinking.
No running.
Follow instructions.
Etc.
What is a "hypothesis"?
An educated guess.
What is an apex predator?
A predator at the top of the food chain.
What animal was removed and caused the ecosystem to collapse? Hint: The elk population went out of control?
The wolf.
Who is credited with discovery of many mountains and seas on the surface of our Moon, as well as the 4 moons that orbit Jupiter? Hint: He refined the telescope.
Galileo.
What is Mr. Chen's favorite color?
Green.
What were we testing with the brine shrimp lab?
Whether brine shrimp hatch better in less salty water or more salty water.
What do plants need to grow and survive?
Carbon dioxide, water, sunlight, soil
What's the difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food chain outlines who eats whom. A food web is all of the food chains in an ecosystem.
What is a star made out of?
Hydrogen, Helium, and little of other elements.
Name all the planets of the solar system.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Name the 6 steps of the scientific method.
Question
Observe
Hypothesis
Experiment
Analyze
Results and conclusion
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
Photosynthesis.
Grass → Rabbit → Hawk
What kind of consumer is the rabbit and what is the hawk?
Rabbit: primary consumer
Hawk: secondary consumer or predator
Define "nebula". What are nebulae made of?
a cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter.
When would you use a bar graph versus a line graph?
A bar graph compares two or more quantities where as a line graph shows change over time.
Results and conclusion: What should we state here? Be specific.
Was our hypothesis correct or incorrect?
What do plants produce as a result of photosynthesis?
Oxygen and glucose.
Where do producers get their energy from?
The sun.
Which ancient astronomer stated that the Sun and other stars revolved around Earth?
He recognized that stars and planets were different objects, and that stars formed a pattern, or constellation, which were nighttime anchors for orientation.
Ptolemy.
Name 4 components a line graph needs.
Title
X-axis and Y-axis
Label your axis too (for example, # of hotdogs sold and Day of the Week)
Data.