Vocabulary
First Hand Data
Second Hand Data
Presenting and Anaylyzing Data
Planning Your Own Experiment
100
measurements and observations about something
What is data?
100
can be avoided if you took more care
What is a mistake?
100
Why we need second hand data.
What is some experiments are too difficult to do first-hand at this stage
100
What should be the first section of your lab report?
What is the purpose?
100
The variable (factor that changes) that we change on purpose
What is the independent variable?
200
data you collect for yourself by doing an experiment
What is first hand data?
200
small and unavoidable variations in data collection
What is an error?
200
some places that we can find second-hand data
What is online, in books, journals, talking with people
200
An educated guess about what might happen in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
200
Variables that we try to keep the same (do not change)
What is a controlled variable?
300
type of data that has measurements and uses numbers and units
What is quantitative data?
300
the reason why stopwatches are inaccurate
What is because of human reflex error
300
.edu domains means that the website belongs to this group
What is an educational institution?
300
Should we connect the dots in a data graph or draw a line of best fit?
What is line of best fit?
300
Variable that we measure the change of, goes on the Y axis of a graph.
What is a dependent variable?
400
website address
What is URL?
400
True or false: All measurements are exact.
What is false
400
Can .com websites be trusted with unbiased information usually?
What is No.
400
things to be included in the methods or procedure
What is a step-by-step guide of how your experiment was conducted?
400
reasons why teamwork is important in labs
What is helping hands, different ideas, help out with roles
500
factors that influence an experiment
What are variables?
500
explain what we did in our reaction time lab. why did we calculate the average reaction time for three trials?
What is have three separate situations: no warning/distraction. countdown, distraction.
500
What is the largest .org website that is NOT a reliable source of information
What is Wikipedia?
500
The last part of your lab report, containing a brief summary of your experiment
What is the conclusion?
500
What are some factors that affected the drop rate of a parachute?
What is size of parachute, length of string, mass of object falling.
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