Tools
Safety Procedures
Scientific Method
Graphs, Tables, Charts
Quantitative - Qualitative
100
This tool measures mass, using grams.
What is a balance?
100
How to test an odor in a laboratory.
What is to waft?
100
The number of variables that should be changed in an experiment.
What is one?
100
This chart or graph is used to express parts of a whole. Its units are expressed in percentages.
What is a pie chart or pie graph?
100
The difference between the top and bottom score.
What is the range?
200
This tool is used to measure liquid volume in milliliters.
What is a graduated cylinder?
200
Safety equipment that must be worn when using chemicals.
What are goggles and plastic (vinyl) gloves?
200
The variable that is changed in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
200
This graph is used for comparison and to organize and illustrate information.
What is a bar graph?
200
The average of a set of numbers.
What is the mean?
300
This tool measures weight, or the pull of gravity on an object.
What is a scale?
300
This procedure should be followed first if something is spilled or broken in the science laboratory.
What is notify the teacher?
300
The variable that is measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
300
This graph is used to show the relationship between two variables.
What is a line graph?
300
The number that appears most often, in a set of numbers.
What is the mode?
400
This is the amount of material in an object.
What is mass?
400
The correct way to hold a test tube.
What is point the mouth of the test tube away fom you and anyone else?
400
The group of samples that was not treated in an experiment. It is used "to compare".
What is the control?
400
On a line graph, our inferred measurements along the curve establish this.
What is a trend?
400
The middle score between the top and bottom number.
What is the median?
500
The part of the water in which the volume is read in a graduated cylinder.
What is the bottom curve of the meniscus?
500
Two safety tools: one holds a test tube, the other picks up either hot or sharp objects.
What are a test tube holder and tongs?
500
The first is something that we "observe" with our five senses and the second is a conclusion that we make based on our observations.
What is an observation & an inference?
500
This is where the independent and dependent variables are placed on a line graph.
What are the x-axis (independent) and the y-axis (dependent)?
500
This is the term for describing something , using numbers and the term for describing something, using words.
What are quantitative and qualitative?
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