What is Science?
Science deals only with ___ world.
What is the natural world?
Step one of the scientific method.
What is identify the problem/ask a question?
The variable that the scientist deliberately changes.
what is the independent variable?
The group used for comparison in an experiment.
what is the control group?
Data that includes numbers and measurements.
what is quantitative data?
Scientists collect an organized information by looking for____ and___.
what are patterns and connections?
The educated guests that predicts what will happen.
What is a hypothesis?
The variable that is observed and measured during an experiment.
what is the dependent variable?
The group that receives the variable being tested.
what is the experimental group?
Data that includes descriptions or characteristics.
what is qualitative data?
Science uses____ to learn about the natural world.
what is evidence?
The step where you design and run your experiment.
what is the procedure/experiment?
Which axis is the independent variable graphed on?
what is the X axis?
Why must all variables except one be kept constant?
So scientist know which variable caused the results.
This step organizes and analyzes collected data.
what is recording in analyzing results?
Scientist, propose, explanations, that can be____ by examining evidence.
what is tested?
What must be done with experiments to make results valid?
What is repeat them many times?
Which axis is the dependent variable graphed on?
what is the Y axis?
In the vaccine experiment, what variable was kept constant? Size, Shape, Color, or Texture
What is all of them?
Large sample sizes increase____ of results.
what is accuracy?
A broad statement believed to be true after many experiments is called a_____.
what is a theory?
The final step where you summarize results and state if your hypothesis was correct.
what is the conclusion?
In the orchid experiment, what was the independent variable: amount of fertilizer or type of fertilizer
what is the amount of fertilizer?
Why is the control group important?
It shows what happens without the experimental factor.
What type of data is best shown in graphs and tables?
what is quantitative data?