What do scientists do?
Scientists define a problem and then do this.
What is try to find answers?
The use of scientific methods to test your hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
Information from which a conclusion can be drawn or a prediction can be made
What is data?
Scientists do this after they analyze the information that has been collected.
What is draw conclusions?
A standard against which change is measured.
What is a control group?
A statement of what you think will happen during an investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
3 things that scientists use to collect data.
What are models, surveys, and sampling?
The ability to consistently repeat a measurement.
What is precision?
A set of observations that make you believe that something is true.
What is evidence?
The value that occurs most often.
What is the mode?
Something you find out about objects, events, or living things by using your senses.
What is an observation?
Something that can change in a test.
What is a variable?
The ability to make a measurement that is as close to the actual value as possible.
What is accuracy?
Scientists use this, not opinions, when drawing conclusions,
What is a fact?
The average
What is a mean?
Scientists draw conclusions based on this.
What is an investigation?
What is a control group?
A conclusion based on observations.
What is an inference?
What scientific investigations are based on?
What is evidence?
The difference between the largest and the smallest values.
What is the range?
Scientists collect this from their observations.
What is data?
Step-by-step instructions for completing a task.
What are procedures?
Scientists look at information they have collected and try to find patterns in the data.
What is interpreting data?
When other scientists recreate a scientific investigation?
What is to replicate?
The middle.
What is the median?