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Science ID
100
The one factor being tested in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
100
The question you are investigating.
What is the problem?
100
This is the first step of the scientific method after the initial observation.
What is the problem?
100
Does the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser clean pen marks off of walls?
What is a problem?
100
A scientist wanted to investigate which tires give the best traction, the tires of a mountain bike, ten-speed bike, or BMX bike. What is the independent variable?
Type of tire.
200
This is the answer to the problem.
What is the conclusion?
200
The factors that stay the same throughout the experiment.
What are constants?
200
Scientists test their hypothesis in this step of the scientific method.
What is experimenting?
200
If I increase my running time each day, then I will lose more weight, because I will be burning more calories.
What is a hypothesis?
200
A scientist was investigating the effects of different cardiovascular exercises on heart rate. What is the dependent variable?
Heart rate
300
Recorded observations and measurements.
What is data?
300
Scientists construct these as visual representations of data.
What are graphs?
300
This is the last step of the scientific method.
What is the conclusion?
300
There were 10 boys, and 6 girls outside of the 3-story building at 12:44 p.m.
What is a quantitative observation?
300
A teacher had a theory that recess time effected student concentration in the classroom. She decided to test this by changing the recess time each week for 3 weeks from 5 min, to 10 min, to 15 min. She then recorded the amount of minutes the students were on task and concentrating. What is the problem?
Does recess time effect student concentration in the classroom?
400
This is what is being measured during an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
400
A recipe in cooking is similar to this in the scientific method.
What is the procedure?
400
When you use one or more of your five senses.
What is observation?
400
A pencil, 2ft of masking tape, 3 textbooks, a ruler, and a flat surface.
What are materials?
400
A mother investigated whether giving his son chamomile tea or green tea would help increase the amount of time her son slept each night. What would be the the control in this experiment?
No tea.
500
The information to investigate.
What is research?
500
The point of comparison or "baseline" during an experiment.
What is the control?
500
The systematic approach scientists use for problem solving.
What is the scientific method?
500
Assuming the coffee is hot because you see steam rising off the top.
What is an inference?
500
A scientist conducted an experiment to see what the dominant color of M&Ms is in a regular size bag of plain M&Ms. He purchased 50 bags of regular size plain M&Ms and counted the amount of each color per bag. He then calculated the average per color for the entire 50 bags. What is the dependent variable?
Amount of M&Ms.
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