Key Terms
Scientific Method
Statistics/Models
Informed Decisions
Potpourri
100
Known as the average.
What is the mean?
100
Known as a possible explanation for an observation.
What is a hypothesis?
100
Most important risk we as humans consider
What is death?
100
Everyone has different standards or what you might consider important.
What are values?
100
Most common types of graphical models.
What are maps and charts?
200
A procedure designed to test a hypothesis under controlled conditions
What is an experiment?
200
Information we obtain or learn from by using our senses.
What is observation?
200
Their most important feature is they resemble an object or system they represent.
What is a physical model?
200
This type of conceptual model helps us to make better decisions
What is the decision-making-model?
200
The collection and classification of data in the form of numbers
What is statistics?
300
The chance that something will happen..
What is probability?
300
Scientists organize their data into these as a way to help analyze and communicate their information.
What is a graph?
300
How the data is arranged gives useful information but more often than not-is shaped like a bell
What is distribution?
300
Once you've considered the benefits, you must also compare these before making your decision.
What are the consequences or negatives?
300
The unwanted outcome is death if you jump out of an airplane, but you must be willing to take this.
What is a risks?
400
During an experiment, this is the factor of interest or in our case it was the various types of soil
What is a variable?
400
scientist must first make a logical statement or (one of these) about what will happen during the experiment.
What is a prediction?
400
A group of individuals selected to represent the whole population.. Or Chic-fil-A would like for you to have one.
What is a sample?
400
These types of values tend to be the most difficult at times to make, considering what is right or wrong.
What are ethical or moral values?
400
Information that scientist gather during an experiment usually recorded in numbers
What is data?
500
In order to answer questions, scientists examine the reliable associations between two or more events.
What are correlations?
500
A good experiment must have these two essential characteristics to be considered valid
What is a variable and a control?
500
A verbal, written, or graphical explanation of how a system works.
What is a conceptual model?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY QUESTION!!! you can wager any amount of your team's points to double your score. Answer incorrectly and you'll lose that amount.
What is 1. Gather information 2. Consider the values 3. Explore the Consequences 4. Make a decision.
500
During an experiment this is the group that does NOT receive any treatment and is how what we will compare our results to.
What is the experimental group?
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