Scientific Method
Vocabulary
Essay Questions
Odds & Ends
Misc
100

variables

What are the factors that can change in an experiment?

100
Science
What is the process of observing, studying, and thinking about things to gain knowledge?
100
Why is it important that scientists perform an experiment more than one time?
to ensure results are valid and reliable
100

rocks, minerals, soil, volcanoes, earthquakes, space

What topics do Earth scientists study?

100
scientific law
What is a rule that describes the behavior of something in nature?
200

Hypothesis

Your statement about what will happen in the experiment


200
hypothesis
What is an educated guess?
200
Why can't science be used to answer ethical questions?
For science to answer a question it must have variables that can be observed, measured and tested
200

dishonest acts, making up data, changing results of experiments or taking credit for work done by others

What is unethical?

200
mythological gods
How did early civilizations explain what the observed in nature?
300

constants

What are variables that do not change?

300

Biology

What is the study of life?

300
Explain why science is always changing
What is technology?
300

Why don't all hypothesis become theories?

the results could change over time, the use of better technology may change the original results

300
barometer
What is the instrument used to measure air pressure?
400

independent variable

What is the variable that changes in an experiment?

400

Observation

What is investigating and watching the world around us and recording what we see?

400
List the steps of the scientific method in order
identify a problem, gather information, make a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, analyze the results, draw conclusions
400

name two scientists and what they were known for?

Answers vary

400

What is the difference between repetition and replication?

Repetition is repeating by the same person, replication is someone else repeating an experiment

500
dependent variable
What is the variable that is measured in an experiment?
500

ethics

What is our belief system that deals with what is good or bad?

500
Why is it important to take good notes and record all data when performing an experiment?
This allows other scientists to examine and evaluate their work. Advances in science occur when people work together.
500

How do scientists measure earthquakes?

What is a seismograph?

500
the study of weather
What is meteorology?
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