Science Skills
Experimentation
The Method
Theories vs. Laws
Random
100
What scientists do to demonstrate a process or show something that is too big, small, or dangerous.
What is modeling?
100
An experiment where all variables are kept constant.
What is a controlled experiment?
100
It starts with this
What is a question/problem?
100
The more massive an object, the more gravity it has. The closer the two objects, the stronger the gravity.
What is the law of gravity?
100
having multiple trials in an experiment
What is repetition?
200
Giving an explanation for what you have observed, based on evidence.
What is an inference?
200
Thinking this way gets rid of bias and personal feelings.
What is being objective?
200
It ends with this
What is a conclusion?
200
energy is neither created nor destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
200
Older objects are usually found in deeper layers of the earth. Younger objects are usually found nearer earth's surface.
What is the law of superposition?
300
Looking for trends or meaning in graphed data
What is analyzing?
300
the independent variable
What is the one variable that is changed in an experiment?
300
An educated guess
What is a hypothesis?
300
Plates are always moving because of convection currents in Earth's mantle
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
300
what we record data in
What is a data table?
400
Sorting/grouping items that are alike in some way
What is classifying?
400
the one group in an experiment that is not changed in any way.
What is the control group?
400
a series of general steps that scientists follow when solving problems.
What is the scientific method?
400
Mass is neither created, nor destroyed
What is the law of conservation of mass?
400
when someone else comes along and repeats your experiment
What is replication?
500
an observation including a number.
What is a quantitative observation?
500
Measuring differences between groups in an experiment is measuring this.
What is the dependent variable?
500
not all methods involve experimentation, sometimes they are all this
What is research?
500
can be changed with new evidence
What are laws and theories?
500
dependent- y axis, independent- x-axis
Where do variables go on a bar graph?
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