Definitions
Scientific Process
Measurement Tools
Data
Take a Chance
100
model
What represents something real that is too big or too small to make in real life?
100
You observe someone limping near a soccer match wearing a uniform
What can you infer?
100
A tool for looking at objects that can't be seen with the eye alone
What is a microscope?
100
The best way to record data- numbers, words, pictures
What is numbers?
100
Writing down the measurable information from experiments and investigations
What is record data?
200
Testable statement
What is a hypothesis?
200
Your data says that a paper airplane goes 10 feet with flat wings and 5 feet with folded wings
What is your conclusion?
200
It is used to measure mass with newtons
What is a spring scale?
200
One example of ways to record data
What is a d_____, t______ or b__ g_______?
200
When we watch people, animals or things to develop a hypothesis
What is an observation?
300
bits of information you observe in an experiment
What is data?
300
Scientists do one of these to answer questions
What is an investigation?
300
It is the unit we use for measuring temperature
What is Fahrenheit?
300
One example of ways to record data
What is d__________, b___ g______ or t_______
300
To make an educated guess about something that will happen in the future based on past experience
What is predict?
400
tape measure
What is a tool you use of measure length of an object or distance?
400
A kind of investigation that is a fair test
What is an experiment?
400
The instrument we use to measure temperature
What is a thermometer?
400
we do this after we have analyzed our data
What is draw a conclusion?
400
Kim and Jasmine are trying to determine what plants that attract butterflies. They are trying to decide if they should put them in a cage with a plant, put them with 3 types of plants or use different types of food. What variable should they change?
What is put them with 3 types of plants and see which one they land on most often
500
The one thing you change in an experiment to test a hypothesis
What is a variable?
500
When you go to the library or look on the computer for information about a scientific topic
What is research?
500
We use this to measure temperature
What is the thermometer?
500
A place where a lot of data is kept and stored like a website, museum, or archive
What is a database?
500
When scientists talk to each other to share data and give results.
What is communicate?
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