The Scientific Method
A series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question.
What is the scientific method?
What is another name for height?
What is amplitude?
The visible form of electromagnetic spectrum is called
What is light?
On a graph, which axis shows the dependent variable?
What is the y-axis?
The x- axis is the ___________________ number line in the coordinate plane.
What is horizontal line?
The name of the information that you get from your experiment (you organize it into charts and graphs).
What is data?
Waves are created when a force creates a ________.
What is a vibration?
Matter that light travels through.
What is a medium?
This variable in an experiment is the one being changed by the scientist.
What is an independent variable?
What is the primary source of light on Earth?
What is sunlight?
A testable explanation to a problem that has not yet been tested.
What is a hypothesis?
What is measured from crest to crest or trough to trough?
What is wavelength?
Light waves bounce off at many of angles because the surface is uneven.
What is reflection?
There are two types of fuel poured into the same car to see which one works best. What type of variable is the fuel?
What is an independent variable?
Refers to the highest point of a wave.
What is a crest?
What skill is a scientist using when she listens to the sounds that an elephant makes?
What is making an observation?
Waves with high frequencies must have ________________.
What are short wavelengths?
Which property of red light is different from violet light?
What is frequency?
Mr. S set up an experiment to see how the mass of a ball affects the distance it rolls off a ramp. Identify the independent variable.
What is the mass of the ball?
Grace is bringing treats to her Algebra 1 class on her birthday. The number of treats she brings is based on the number of students in her class.
Which of the variables is independent?
The number of students.
What are the five steps in the scientific method?
What is ask a question, hypothesis, procedure, results and conclusion?
Waves that vibrate parallel to the direction of wave movement are
What are longitudinal waves?
White light can be separated into colors what is the correct order from the longest to shortest wavelengths?
What is Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet (ROYGBIV)?
A student is planning an experiment to find out how the height from which he drops a ball affects how high the ball bounces. The dependent variable is the _____.
What is the height that the ball bounces?
Why would a scientist repeat their experiment several times?
What is to make their experiment more reliable? What is for accuracy?