Vocabulary
Designing an Experiment
Synonyms
Data Tables
Miscellaneous
100
This step in the inquiry process involves sharing ideas and experimental findings with others through writing and speaking.
What is communicating?
100
This type of list should be part of the procedures.
What is the materials list?
100
This term, beginning with an "m" is a synonym for independent variable.
What is manipulated variable?
100
This should be written above a data table.
What is the title?
100
This process refers to the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the evidence they gather.
What is the scientific inquiry process?
200
These are the facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations.
What are data?
200
It's very important that this part of the experiment is very detailed and easy to follow.
What are the procedures?
200
This term, beginning with an "e," is the same thing as the independent or manipulated variable.
What is the experimental variable?
200
A data table should be drawn using one of these.
What is a ruler?
200
This is a factor that can change in an experiment.
What is a variable?
300
In this type of experiment, one variable is purposely changed, and the other variables are controlled.
What is a controlled experiment?
300
After posing a scientific question (or considering a scientific problem), this type of statement can be formed.
What is a hypothesis?
300
This term, beginning with a "c," is a synonym for controlled variables.
What is constant?
300
This variable is in the leftmost column of a data table.
What is the independent variable?
300
You should have several of these in your experiment to reduce the effects of experimental error.
What are trials?
400
This is a statement that defines how to measure a particular variable.
What is an operational definition?
400
In this part of the experiment you make inferences based on your data and attempt to answer the scientific question.
What is the conclusion?
400
This is another term to describe the control group.
What is the control?
400
This variable is located in the columns to the right of the variable being tested.
What is the dependent variable?
400
This is a well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results. They sometimes provide an explanation for a scientific law.
What is a scientific theory?
500
This is the group that is left alone (not exposed to the independent variable) in a controlled experiment. It is used as a basis of comparison with the other groups in the experiment.
What is the control group?
500
This can be a helpful tool for interpreting data.
What is a graph?
500
This term is a synonym for the dependent variable.
What is responding variable?
500
This is located in the far right column of the data table.
What is the average (of the trials).
500
This is a statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions, and can typically be expressed as an equation. (For example, an apple will fall to the ground due to gravity.)
What is a scientific law?
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