Thinking Like A Scientist
Scientific Inquiry
Experimentation
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
100
Using one or more of your senses to gather information.
What is is observing?
100
Explaining or interpreting the things you observe.
What is making an inference?
100
A factor that can change during an experiment.
What is a variable?
100
Making a forecast of what will happen.
What is a prediction?
100
A way of learning about the natural world.
What is science?
200
TRUE OR FALSE Being able to think scientifically can help you solve problems in your everyday life?
What is TRUE?
200
The one variable that is purposely changed to test a hypothesis.
What is the manipulated variable?
200
Creating a representation of complex objects or things that cannot be observed directly.
What is making models?
200
An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time.
What is a controlled experiment?
300
TRUE OR FALSE Most scientific questions being investigated today span the different fields of science.
What is TRUE?
300
Facts, figures and other evidence gathered through observations.
What is data?
300
The following student is which type of an observation? A chimpanzee has a good grip when it climbs?
What is a qualitative observation?
300
Grouping together items that are alike in some way.
What is classification?
300
A hypothesis in which researchers must be able to carry out investigations and gather evidence that will either support or disprove the hypothesis.
What is a testable hypothesis?
400
A possible explanation for a set of observations?
What is a hypothesis?
400
A well-tested explantation for a wide range of observations.
What is theory?
400
TRUE OR FALSE The responding variable is the variable that is purposely changed during an experiment.
What is FALSE?
400
Having an attitude of doubt.
What is skepticism?
400
A statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions; a rule of nature.
What is a scientific law?
500
A rule of nature is called this.
What is a scientific law?
500
If you can understand basic scientific terms and principles you have this.
What is scientific literacy?
500
The following statement is which type of observation? The chimpanzee climbed 5 meters before stopping.
What is a quantitative observation?
500
A process that includes the different ways that scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the evidence they gather.
What is scientific inquiry?
500
The statement that describes how to measure a particular variable.
What is an operational definition?
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