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This is a series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question.

What is the Scientific Method

100

The two types of variables in an experiment.

What is the independent and dependent variables.

100

Name two of the four animals mentioned in the magazine with extraordinary eyes.

What are:  owl, mantis shrimp, chameleon, dragonfly

100

How can data be displayed?

What is in graphs and charts.
100

The  variable that goes on the x axis?

What is the independent variable?

200

A prediction of what you think will happen in your experiment.

What is a hypothesis.

200

Questions written in this correct way make it easy to figure out the independent and dependent variables in an experiment.

What is Does _________ affect ____________?

200

The mineral is found in a pencil?

What is graphite?
200

Observations or data that involve numbers

What is quantitative data

200

 The independent variable for this graph

What is amount of water

300

A list of directions anyone can follow to conduct an experiment.

What is a procedure.

300

What is the independent variable in an experiment?  Give an example.

What is the variable that is purposely changed in the experiment, and what the scientist is testing.


examples will vary.

300

How many color sensing cells does a mantis shrimp have compared to a human?

What is, Humans have 3 and a mantis shrimp has 12.
300

This variable is the data collected in the experiment.

What is the dependent variable

300

Each line on this bar graphs stands for what?

What is 100,000 people

400

When writing a hypothesis, these words are not allowed.

What is "I think."

400

In a controlled/fair experiment, how many independent variables can be worked with at a time?

What is one.
400

The volcano Kilauea in Hawaii is what kind of volcano?

What is a shield Volcano

400

The number that occurs most often in a set of numbers is called what?

What is the mode?
400

The 6 main parts of a graph? What is missing from this graph?

What is (SULTAN) Scale, units, labels, title, accuracy, and neatness.

The graph is missing labels.

500

List the steps of the scientific method in order.

What is :  Ask a Question, Form a hypothesis, Test, Analyze Data, Draw a Conclusion

500

Give an example of a scientific question and identify both the independent and dependent variables.

answers will vary

500

What's the difference between the eye of an owl, and the eye of a chameleon?

What is, the owl has an eye that is unable to move in its socket, and the chameleon can move its eyes independently in its socket.  Also and owl has huge pupils that allow it to see in the dark. 

500

How do you find the average/mean of a set of numbers?

What is add up all the numbers and then divide by how many number there are.

500

Draw a graph showing this data.

Season .        amount of rainfall (inches)

Fall                10

Winter             7.          

Summer .        5

Spring            30

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