GRAPHS
PARTS OF AN EXPERIMENT
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY
IV vs. DV
TRIVIA/RANDOM
100
The axis which the independent variable is placed on
What is the x-axis?
100
An educated guess or prediction
What is a hypothesis?
100
The diverse ways in which scientists study and try to explain the natural world
What is scientific inquiry?
100
Variable that is manipulated.
What is the independent variable?
100
True or False: No experiment or research study is ever fully without bias
What is true?
200
The axis which the dependent variable is placed on
What is the y-axis?
200
Using the "5 senses" (like sight, touch, taste, hearing, etc.) to describe the results of your experiment
What is an observation?
200
True or False: You are working to PROVE your hypothesis correct
What is false?
200
Variable that is responding.
What is the dependent variable?
200
Three verbs to describe graphs trends.
Increase, decrease, rise, decline, vary (variation)
300
The characteristic this graph is missing
What is a title?
300
a) The manipulated variable
b) The responding variable
a) What is the independent variable?
b) What is the dependent variable?
300
The purpose of a well-designed experiment is to reduce what one thing (single word!)
What is bias?
300
True or False. There can be more than one experimental group.
What is True?
300
Factors that are held the same throughout an experiment
What are controls or constants?
400
The data trend exhibited by this line graph can be described as
What is steadily increasing in temperature (F) over the course of 6 days?
400
A scientist runs an experiment to test whether fertilizer makes plants grow taller. He measures plant height in the experimental and control groups each day for two weeks. Possible controls (or constants) include (MUST list 3)
What is sunlight exposure, amount of water given, type of soil, temperature, etc.?
400
Examples of current issues or challenges that are being addressed through scientific inquiry (List 3 examples)
What are climate change, pollution, coral reef die-offs, endangered species, wildfires, natural disasters, etc.?
400
A scientist is conducting an experiment to see what is better for a plants growth, more regular plant food or plant food with extra minerals. He had two different groups one with the extra mineral plant food and one group with the regular plant food. What is the control group in this experiment?
CG: group with regular plant food
400
A student at a high school thinks they have made a discovery during one of their experiments, without doing their experiment again, they rush to a local paper to give them the story. What part of a "good experiment" is missing?
What is repetition?
500
A graph MUST always have these five characteristics
What is 1) a title, 2) label on the x-axis, 3) label on the y-axis, 4) consistent units, 5) draw a line (data trend)?
500
The 7 key parts of an experiment or case study
What is 1) researcher, 2) key question, 3) hypothesis, 4) experiment, 5) observations, 6) results, and 7) conclusion?
500
The 2 purposes of scientific inquiry (should be two bullet points in your notes)
What is 1) to explain the natural world around us and 2) to help solve current issues in our society?
500
A scientist is conducting an experiment on how different kind of drinks effect a rose's growth. They get 4 jars, fill them up with roses and put 4 different kind of drinks in, one in each jar. The scientist thinks that sprite will case the wilting flowers to bloom the quickest. In the end, the water was the fastest, then gatorade, sprite, and coke. What is the Independent variable, dependent variable, control group(s), experimental group(s) and the control(s) in this expirement?
IV: type of drink
DV: rose growth
CG: group with water
EG: groups with gatorade, sprite, coke
500
The 3 characteristics of a well-designed experiment
What are 1) controls (constants), 2) randomization, 3) repetition?