Vocabulary
Data Tables/Graphs
Scientific Investigation
Variables
Process Skills
100
Grouping or ordering objects or events according to an established scheme, based on observations.
What is classifying?
100
Both data tables and graphs must all have this.
What is a title?
100
Format used to write a hypothesis.
What is If, then, because?
100
Can be more than one.
What are controlled variables?
100
Using observations to collect and analyze data.
What is investigating?
200
Approximately calculating a quantity or value based on judgment.
What is estimating?
200
The variable along the x-axis of a graph.
What is the manipulated variable?
200
Mrs. Cline's forbidden word in a hypothesis or conclusion.
What is 'it'?
200
What we change.
What is the manipulated variable?
200
Reading and explaining tables, graphs and diagrams.
What is interpreting data?
300
A belief or judgment.
What is an opinion?
300
Used to display data in a number of separate categories.
What is bar graph?
300
The variable that is discussed after the key word 'If' in a hypothesis.
What is the manipulated variable?
300
Variable on the y-axis of a graph.
What is the responding variable?
300
Compare objects to arbitrary units that may or may not be standardized.
What is measuring?
400
Derive meaning from clues, hints, and evidence.
What is inferring?
400
The variable going across the top of a data table.
What is the responding variable?
400
The first step of a scientific investigation.
What is the question?
400
We measure this.
What is the responding variable?
400
Forming an idea of an expected result, based on inferences.
What is predicting?
500
Using your senses to learn about something in detail.
What is observing?
500
A graph that usually involves time.
What is line graph?
500
Four parts of a complete conclusion.
What are topic sentence, high and low data, compare data, and concluding sentence?
500
The variable that is not included in a conclusion.
What is the controlled variable?
500
Stating a problem to be solved as a question that can be tested by an experiment.
What is hypothesizing?
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