Representing Data
This term is the same as finding the average of a group of numbers.
What is the mean?
A systematic study of natural events and conditions.
What is Science?
Using senses to obtain information.
What is observation?
The exactness of a measurement.
What is precision?
A specific question that a scientist wants to answer.
What is a scientific problem
Uses a model to show how and object or system behaves or funtions.
What is a simulation?
Personal feelings and opinions are not one of this type of evidence.
what is empirical evidence?
An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions.
What is an experiment?
The description of how close a measurement is to the true value of the quantity measured.
What is accuracy?
The application of science for practical purposes.
What is technology?
Used to shoe things that are too small, too large, or too complex to see easily.
What is a scientific model?
What is a scientific explanation?
A variable that is not allowed to change in the investigation.
what is a constant?
6 meters is an example of what?
What is measurement?
The application of science and math to solve real life problems.
What is Engineering?
A map of the United States is an example of this.
What is a model?
In this order: The Evidence, The Logic, The tests, and the conclusion are the steps to this evaluation.
What is a scientific explanation?
The factor that is deliberately changed in order to test the effect of the change on another variable.
What is an independent variable?
a X 10b is a shorter way to represent very large numbers.
What is Scientific Notation?
Similar to a hypothesis however, does not include any explanation of relationships among factors.
What is a prediction?
The average of numbers 5,10,5,10,15,10,10,15,5 and 5 is 9 which is the same as this data point.
What is the mean?
Scientists knew bluegills are sensitiveto some contaminants in water and used this to detect harmful substances in drinking water.
How do scientist show creativity?
The factor that is measured to gather results for the experiement.
what is a dependent variable?
Put this scientific notation into standard form:
3X10-3
What is 0.003?
what is a hypothesis?