Scientific Inquiry
Variables & Controls
Scientific Method
Science Trivia
Observations & Inferences
100
The ways in which scientists share ideas and experimental results with other scientists.
What is communicating?
100
Something that can change or vary in an experiment.
What is a variable?
100
This is the 1st step in the scientific method.
What is making observations?
100
The group that is kept constant during an experiment.
What is the Control group?
100
Using one or more of your senses.
What is observing?
200
A single explanation that connects to a large set of related observations or results from experiments.
What is Scientific Theory?
200
An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated.
What is a controlled experiment?
200
Facts, figures, and other evidence that a scientist collects through observing.
What is data?
200
Scientists use this as an organized way to collect and record observations.
What is a data table?
200
Explain or interpret an observation based on prior knowledge.
What is inferring?
300
A rule of nature that describes what scientists suppose will happen every time when conditions are the same.
What is Scientific Law?
300
The variable that is changed on purpose during an experiment to test a hypothesis.
What is an Independent (Manipulated) variable?
300
One possible answer to a scientific question.
What is a Hypothesis?
300
Observations that deal with descriptions with numbers or measurements.
What is a Quantitative Observation?
300
Making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on factual evidence.
What is predicting?
400
A process that includes the different ways that scientists find out about the natural world and try to explain what they have observed.
What is the Scientific Inquiry?
400
The variable that changes in response to changes in the manipulated variable.
What is a Dependent (Responding) variable?
400
Observations that deal with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers.
What is a Qualitative Observation?
400
Five skills scientists use to learn about the natural world.
What is Observing, Inferring, Predicting, Classifying and Making Models?
400
The process of grouping together items that are alike in some way.
What is classifying?
500
A summary of what you have learned from an experiment.
What is a conclusion?
500
A description of how to measure a variable or define a term within a controlled experiment.
What is an Operational Definition?
500
A hypothesis that researchers can carry out investigations that will either prove or disprove it.
What is a testable hypothesis?
500
Scientists possess five important attitudes in order to be successful.
What is Curiosity, Honesty, Open-mindedness, Skepticism, and Creativity?
500
Creating representations of complex objects or processes.
What is making models?
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