Scientific Method
What is the first step of any scientific investigation?
a. question or problem
b. debate
question or problem
Where was Galileo from?
Italy
What are variables?
a. parts of an experiment that can change
b. parts of an experiment that can't change
parts of an experiment that can change
What were the scientists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons trying to prove?
cold ______ in the _______
cold fusion in the laboratory
What is it called when a scientist comes to a wrong conclusion after holding too hard to ideas he or she had before the experiment?
a. peer review
b. pathological science
pathological science
What is an educated guess about the outcome of an experiment called?
a. conclusion
b. hypothesis
hypothesis
Before Galileo, what did everyone believe about the solar system?
a. the Sun revolved around the Earth
b. the Earth revolved around the Sun
They believed that the Sun revolved around the Earth.
What are the three types of variables?
a. control, dependable, undependable
b. constant, dependent, independent
constant, dependent and independent
What is something that makes scientists successful?
a. peer review
b. pathological science
peer review
What does STEM stand for?
Science, technology, engineering, and math
What do you called the last step of the scientific process where you summarize what you've learned?
a. conclusion
b. data
conclusion
What was Galileo known as?
a. the father of modern science
b. the father of modern medicine
The father of modern science
What type of variable is what the experimenter chooses to change?
a. dependent
b. independent
independent
When was Galileo born?
a. 1764
b. 1564
1564
What is a synonym for germination?
a. rotting
b. sprouting
sprouting
Where would you find steps, materials, and measurements of an experiment?
a. procedures
b. stages
procedures
What happened to Galileo because of his beliefs?
a. house arrest
b. went to church
house arrest
What is a dependent variable?
a. the outcome you cannot control
b. the outcome you can control
the outcome you cannot control
Jan Baptist van Helmont was a scientist in the early 17th century who was a careful observer of what?
a. nature
b. science
nature
What is the control in an investigation?
a. the independent variable before it has been changed
b. the independent variable after it has been changed
It is the independent variable before it has been changed.
What do you call the part where you organize the results of an experiment?
a. information
b. data
data
Before Galileo, everyone believed that the planets and Earth revolved around the Sun.
T or F?
False
What do CV, IV, and DV stand for?
Choices: constant, control, independent, indefensible, dependable, dependent
constant, independent, and dependent variables
What did Jon Baptist van Helmont grow and then replant into a pot in order to discover what added mass to plants?
a. palm trees
b. willow trees
willow trees
What was Galileo's "new truth?"
a. Scientists will come to the wrong conclusion after holding on to a hypothesis too long or too hard.
b. He proved all objects will fall at the same rate, regardless of weight, if there is no air resistance.
He proved that all objects will fall at the same rate, regardless of weight, if there is no air resistance.