Variables
Scientists/Reasoning
History of Science
Graphs
Types of Graphs
100
This is another term for the independent variable.
What is the manipulated variable?
100
True or False: Deductive reasoning is better than inductive reasoning.
False! The two types of reasoning are equally useful.
100
This is the system used by scientists to take measurements.
What is the metric system?
100
This is the step in which the data is graphed.
What is Step 5: Record and Analyze Data?
100
This is a special table where each data value is split into a "stem" and a "leaf."
What is a stem and leaf plot?
200
This is another term for the dependent variable.
What is the responding variable?
200
These types of scientists study in order to solve a specific problem.
What are applied scientists?
200
This groups of scholars developed the fundamentals of the scientific method.
Who are Muslim scholars?
200
This is placed at the top of the graph and describes the data being collected.
What is the title?
200
This type of graph, which looks like a bar graph, shows the distribution of numerical data.
What is a bar graph?
300
This is the variable that is not changed throughout the experiment.
What is the control variable?
300
These types of scientists study to obtain knowledge.
What are pure scientists?
300
Which scientist introduced skepticism into scientific inquiry, influencing people to investigate things on their own?
Who is Rene Descartes?
300
This is where the dependent variable is displayed on the graph.
What is the vertical axis?
300
This graph uses bars to compare variables in a data set.
What is a bar graph?
400
This variable is the one that is changed on purpose.
What is the independent variable?
400
This type of reasoning moves from general facts to specific facts to form a conclusion.
What is deductive reasoning?
400
Who introduced the usefulness of mathematics to obtain scientific results?
Who is Galileo Galilei?
400
Which side of the table shows the categories being studied (independent variable)?
What is the left side?
400
This type of graph shows the percents that make up a whole.
What is a pie graph?
500
This variable is the data being collected.
What is the dependent variable?
500
This type of reasoning moves from specific facts to general facts to form a conclusion.
What is inductive reasoning?
500
This scientist used elimination and inductive reasoning to find the cause of phenomena.
Who is Francis Bacon?
500
This is where the independent variable is displayed on the graph.
What is the horizontal axis?
500
This type of graph connects points with to show the continuous relationship between two variables.
What is a line graph?
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