Scientific Method
TRUE OR FALSE: The scientific method is a set of rules.
FALSE- it is a way of thinking that is logical and systematic.
He is best known for what.
What is the Kelvin temperature scale.
This is the metric unit of length.
What is a meter.
Name a science tool that scientists use that you can find in the science lab.
What are graduated cylinders, thermometers, beakers, microscopes, scales, etc...
This is anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter.
This is the term for an educated guess.
What is a hypothesis.
This is what most of his life's work involved
What is electricity and magnetism.
This is the metric unit of weight.
What is grams.
These are the types of observations that the scientists prefer.
What are quantitative observations.
This is a controlled test to see what happens in a certain situation.
What is an experiment.
These are the 6 steps to the scientific method
What is 1) Make observations 2) Identify a problem 3) Make a hypothesis 4) Test, record, analyze, 5) Draw conclusion 6) Share
True or False: Lord Kelvin studied animal genetics?
FALSE: Lord Kelvin studied electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, geophysics, tides, the shape of the earth, atmospheric electricity, thermal studies of the ground, the Earth's rotation, geomagnetism
This is the metric unit to measure liquids.
What is liters.
DAILY DOUBLE
These are observations that do not involve numbers.
Give two examples of these observations.
What are qualitative observations.
What are something you see, smell, hear, taste, touch
This is what chemists' study.
What is the material around us and how it interacts with other materials.
This is the variable that you change or test.
What is the independent variable
This was a major mistake made by Lord Kelvin.
He said there is nothing new to be discovered in physics.
This is the reason that the metric system is used.
Because it is easy to use.
This is the main job of a science when he/she studies the world
What is to make observations.
These are the two things you need to know before you conduct an experiment.
What is 1) your purpose 2) what you expect to happen
This is the variable that we measure.
What is the dependent variable.
This is what Kelvin used thermodynamics to disprove.
This is the number that is used as the multiplier to the standard unit in the metric system.
What is 10.
This is the name of the lens of the microscope that is closest to the object being viewed.
What is the objective lens.
This type of science can be repeated and reproduced by other scientists.
What is operational science.