The Nature of Science

Scientific Method

100

What is the first step of the scientific method?

What is "Ask a question"

200

When a scientist does their experiment again

What is repetition?

300

A series of steps that are taken to determine the answer to a scientific question.

What is "the scientific method"

400

Any factor that can be changed in an experiment.

What is "a variable"

500

List all the steps of the scientific method in order.

What is 1. Ask a question 2. create a hypothesis 3. perform an experiment 4. analyze data 5. draw conclusions 6. communicate results

Experiments

100

When a scientist does another scientist's experiment

What is the replication

200

There are two groups that are being tested on a new shampoo. Group A does not get the new ingredient but Group B does. Which group is the control group?

What is "Group A"

300

Two groups are being tested on whether or not a vaccine with a new medicine works or not. Group A is given the new vaccine and Group B is not. What is the independent variable?

What is "the new medicine"

400

What is the change that occurs second in the experiment?

What is "the dependent variable"

500

In the experiment where we used the alka seltzer in the different solutions to see which one dissolved the fastest, what was the dependent variable?

What is "how quickly the alka seltzer dissolved"

Graphing

100

The following data would be put on which type of graph? 25% pizza, 25% cheeseburger, 50% hotdog

What is " a circle graph"

200

Which of the variables go on the x-axis of a bar graph?

What is the independent variable

300

There are 30 students. 15 like football, 10 like basketball and 5 like soccer. What percentage of students like basketball the best?

What is "33%"

400

The type of graph that you make depends on the type of ______.

What is data.

500

Comparative, observational, experimental

What are the three types of investigations?

Misc

100

The total list of everything we know about a topic

What is body of knowledge?

200

Protects your eyes and face during an experiment.

What is "goggles"

300

Examples of this type of data - hair color, attendance status, tall/short

What is a qualitative variable

400

Examples of this type of data include height, amount, number of kids who do sports in class. 

What is quantitative data?

500

Transfers small amounts of liquid from one place to another

What is a "pipette"

Vocabulary

100

Things in an experiment that remain the same.

What is a "control"

200

Our best explanation of a scientific phenomenon

What is a theory?

300

This type of investigation is used when we can't control variables - like with nature, space, or the earth.

Observational investigation

400

This type of investigation uses controls and variables.

Experimental investigation

500

Describes what will happen every time, under certain conditions. 

What is a scientific law?