Vocabulary
A possible answer to a question
What is a hypothesis?
The basic metric unit of length
What is the meter?
The first step in the Scientific Method.
What is ask a question?
The thing you keep the same in an experiment.
What is the Control or Controlled Variable?
Ways scientists can test their predictions
What is perform an experiment.
A statement that can explain how something can cause an effect.
What is a prediction?
The basic metric unit of mass.
What is the gram?
The step of the scientific method that involves making an educated guess.
What is Make a Hypothesis.
The thing you measure in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
What scientists must do when they finish an experiment.
What is analyze their results?
A series of steps scientists use to answer a question and to solve problems
What is the Scientific method?
The basic metric unit of volume.
What is the liter?
When you conduct an experiment this is the part that tests only one factor at a time and is something you have control over picking.
What is a controlled experiment?
The thing you change in an experiment/
What is the independent variable?
Things scientists must do to make sure they do not cause unnecessary harm to the organisms they test.
What are use ethical guidelines?
Anything in an experiment that can change the experiment's results.
What is a factor?
The metric unit of temperature.
What is degree Celsius?
The two words that must be written in a correct hypothesis?
What is if and then?
Temperature, type of organisms being studied, and weather are all examples of
What are factors?
Writing reports, giving presentations, and sharing results on the internet.
What are ways scientists can share the results of their experiments?
The factor being tested.
What is a variable?
The volume of a solid is measured using these units.
What is cubic meters? (m3)
The step of the scientific method where we use graphs or tables.
What is communicate results?
When looking at the frog example in the book, Leopard frogs were tested giving them 0 days, 15 days, and 24 days of UV light exposure. The independent variable is...
What are days of light exposure?
The dependent variable in the Homer Simpson slime test.
What is the amount of green slime on the walls.