What All Scientists Do
This is a procedure to carry out, to carefully observe, study, or test something to learn more about it.
What is an investigation?
In the 1600s, people believed that rotten meat turns into this.
What are maggots?
You need to avoid _______ _______ when thinking like a scientist.
What are sticky traps?
This scientist uses fossils to answer questions about the past.
What is a paleontologist?
One of the most valuable things a scientist can do to help grow knowledge.
What is communicate?
This is what you do when you use your five senses to collect information.
What is observe?
This is the information collected during a scientific investigation.
What is evidence?
When you do this, you come up with an idea or conclusion based on an observation.
What is infer?
This scientist answers questions about how the universe works.
What is an Astronomer?
Scientists do this to show how living things are related.
What is classify?
This is what you are doing when you find ways that objects are similar and different.
What is comparing?
The old theory was proven wrong and replaced by the idea "maggots hatch from THIS that flies lay."
What are eggs?
This is a personal belief that does not need proof.
What is an opinion?
This scientist investigates questions about plants.
What is a botanist?
When you are placing objects one after another in the correct sequence, you are putting them in ____.
What is order?
What science skills do paleontologists use when working in the field?
What are observing and comparing?
A scientist in the 1600s showed through experiments that "Living insects only come from other ____ ____."
What are living insects?
Saying that a spider is scary is an example of this.
What is an opinion?
This scientist identifies living things and classifies them on how they are related.
This was invented in 1958 to make visits to a particular lab more interesting to the public.
What is a video game?
When a scientist observes two things very closely in order to decide if they are related, they are doing this.
What is comparing?
This is the name of the scientist that corrected the wrong idea about where flies come from.
Who is Dr. Francesco Redi?
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Who is Dr. Redi?
We use observations and inference to _____ ______.
What is draw conclusions?
This scientist studies wild animals in their habitats.
What is a zoologist?
This is the name of the coolest science teacher you have ever had in 5th grade.
Who is Mr. G?
or
Who is Mr. Gould?