Vocab Words
An observation that is made using only your senses.
What is Direct Observation?
An observation that is made through the use of a tool (ruler, scale, microscope, thermometer).
What is an indirect observation?
Indirect Observation
What is an observation that is made through the use of a tool (ruler, scale, microscope, thermometer)?
Biotic
What is a way to describe a living thing?
A way to describe non-living thing.
What is abiotic?
A way to describe living things.
What is biotic?
Independent Variable (IV)
What is the one variable that a scientist manipulates and will cause a change in the dependent variable?
Direct observation
What is an observation that is made using only your senses?
A series of steps followed (non linear) to solve problems including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating conclusions.
What is the scientific method?
Thing you keep the same in an experiment.
What is Control Variables (constants)?
Quanitative Observation
What is an observation that deals with a number or amount (amounts, temperature, mass and length)?
Abiotic
What is a non-living thing?
An observation that deals with a number or amount (amounts, temperature, mass and length).
What is a quanitative observation?
An observation that deals with characteristics that cannot be expressed in numbers (color, taste, sound).
What is qualitive observation?
Qualitive Observation
What is an observation that deals with characteristics that cannot be expressed in numbers (color, taste, sound)?
The Scientific Method
What is a series of steps followed (non linear) to solve problems including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating conclusions?
The variable that is measured and that changes in response to the independent variable.
What is dependent variable?
The one variable that a scientist manipulates and will cause a change in the dependent variable.
What is independent variable (IV)?
Dependent Variable
What is the variable that is measured and that changes in response to the independent variable.
Control Variables (constants)
What is things you keep the same in an experiment?