Scientific Skills
Scientific Attitudes
Scientific Method
Scientific Reasoning
Miscellaneous
100
When Scientists group information into categories they are ?
What is Classifying?
100
Faulty Reasoning is when this happens.
What is your conclusion is not supported by your data?
100
A Scientific __________________ is a proposed explanation that can be tested.
What is Hypothesis.
100
Reasoning that looks at the available evidence.
What is Objective Reasoning?
100
The process that begins with a question and ends with communicating your results.
What is the Scientific Method?
200
Finding the length of a caterpillar is 4.5 centimeters is a Qualitative or Quantitative Observation?
What is Quantitative Observation
200
Having doubt about what someone just told you.
What is Skepticism?
200
A(n) ____________________ is the factor that is deliberately changed in an experiment.
What is Manipulated or Independent Variable
200
This makes subjective reasoning not good for scientific thinking.
What are Personal Feelings, values, and tastes? (or opinions)
200
A _____________________ should have only one independent or Manipulated Variable.
What is a Controlled Experiment
300
How do scientists use observations to make predictions?
Observing means using one or more of your senses to gather information, using the information gathered you then make a prediction which is a statement or claim about what will happen in the future based on your past experience and evidence.
300
When scientists want to learn more about their subject, they are showing this attitude.
What is Curiosity?
300
A _____________________ should have only one independent or Manipulated Variable.
What is a Controlled Experiment
300
Reasoning that starts with a specific observation and is then applied to a general case.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
300
"Mr. Stefanelli is shorter than Mr. Cochran." is an example of this kind of observation.
What is Qualitative Observation?
400
When a scientist is comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion, they are _____________?
What is evaluating?
400
Why do Scientists need a strong sense of ethics?
Knowing right and wrong helps a scientist consider the effects their research will have on other people.
400
When Might a Scientist use a Model?
What is Sometimes scientist study things that are very large, very small, or that occur over a very long period of time. In such cases then a model might be used to allow scientist to study the subject in detail easily.
400
House MD and Sherlock Holmes are examples of this style of reasoning which goes from general to specific.
What is Deductive Reasoning?
400
A scientist's ability to accept new and different ideas.
What is Open-Mindedness?
500
What's the difference between inferences and predictions?
What is Inferences are attempts to fill in the gaps between your observations, while predictions are statements of claims about what will happen.
500
Describe how bias can influence an experiment.
Bias is when a scientist sees what the expect instead of what the data shows them. Personal Bias, Cultural Bias, and Experimental Bias. Personal Bias is allowing a persons likes and dislikes to influence how they think about something. Cultural Bias is where the culture in which a person grows up in affects the way the person thinks. Experimental Bias is a mistake in the design of an experiment that makes a certain result more likely.
500
What is an Scientific Law?
What is a description of observed patterns in nature without trying to explain those patterns. i.e. gravity, all objects in the universe are attracted to each other.
500
The difference between Deductive and Inductive reasoning.
What is Deductive starts with a general observation and is applied to a specific case, while Inductive starts with a specific observation and is applied to a general case.
500
What would an example of Quantitative observation and Qualitative observation be from the school cafeteria?
What is Quantitative would be 5 buyers, six packers Qualitative would be students eat only the red apples, and left the green apples.
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