This is the vocabulary word for an archaeologist's dig
What is an excavation?
100
This person is a scientist who studies the earth’s processes to help determine age of artifacts.
Who is a geologist?
100
This is the first step in any scientific approach to solving a problem.
What is recognizing the problem?
100
These are the factors that stay the same in an experiment.
What are constants?
200
These are objects like tools or weapons that archaeologists find like tools or weapons.
What are artifacts?
200
The use of knowledge gained through science to make new products or tools people can use is called this.
What is technology?
200
These are bits of information you gather with your senses.
What are observations?
200
This is the factor that you change in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
300
These are types of technology archaeologists use (name 2).
What are computers, cameras, radar, and motorized brushes? (must name 2)
300
This is the use of knowledge gained through science to make tools or new products people can use.
What is technology?
300
This is a statement is a guess that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
300
This is a standard you use for comparison in an experiment (the one you compare your results to).
What is the control?
400
Archaeologists work in the field, but also in the laboratory. This is the kind of testing they do in the lab.
What is chemical analysis?
400
This is the process of trying to understand the world.
What is science?
400
True or false: the steps of the scientific method are always done in the same order.
What is FALSE?
400
This is the factor, or outcome, that you will be measuring in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
500
The field of archaeology covers about this many years.
What is about 3 million years? [The first ancestors of people appeared on Earth about 3.5 million years ago.]
500
Step by step procedures of scientific problem solving are called these.
What are scientific methods?
500
This is what scientists do after they analyze their experimental results.
What is draw conclusions?
500
You plan an experiment on the effect of sugary soda on kids' blood sugar. You give 4 kids different amounts of soda and then measure how their blood sugar changes. In this experiment, the __________ is the independent variable.