Tools and Terms
Tools and Terms
Investigations
Random Science Facts
100

A cylindrical container often with markings on the side.

What is a beaker?
100

Often used to heat liquids.

What is an Erlenmeyer Flask?

100

A method of gathering data that involves asking people for information.

What is a survey?

100

Most scientists work in these instead of by themselves.

What is a team?

200

Used to culture bacteria.

What is a Petri Dish?

200

A factor in an experiment that can change.

What is a variable?

200

A careful observation and description of an event, object, or organism.

What is a study?

200

When you repeat an experiment with the same results.

What is to replicate?

300

Data that involves numbers

What is Quantitative?

300

Data that involves non-numerical information.

What is Qualitative?

300

A controlled procedure carried out to discover, test, or demonstrate something.

What is an experiment?

300

Football and Soccer.

What are everyday situations where people work in teams?

400

A type of computer program that allows data to be recorded in rows and columns.

What is a spreadsheet?

400

Used to record observations, and is made up of our notebooks and lab reports.

What is a science journal?

400

Only this amount of variables should change in an experiment.

What is one?

400

Computers help scientists by doing these two things.

What is storing records and analyzing data?

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