Experimental
This is an aspect of an experiment you change to affect the outcome (of the experiment).
What is a 'Variable'?
Pg. 58, BTD
This is one of the most common methods of organizing data gathered from experiments.
What is a 'Table'?
Pg 62, figure 3.6
This part of a graph provides important information about how to read it.
What is a 'Legend'?
Pg 74, second paragraph
In this experiment, information about the test is kept from the participants to reduce bias.
What is a 'Blind Experiment'?
Pg 71, BTD
Mr. Reid suggested reading this part of a lab in the student workbook to better understand what the purpose of the lab is.
What is the 'Conclusion'?
Last part of all labs.
This substance increases the density of water, as seen in Experiment 3.1 where an egg was placed into a glass of water.
What is 'Salt'?
Pg 59, Experiment 3.1
This is one of the data points from experiment 3.1 (State 1 of the 2)
What is 'Amount of Salt / Observation (of the egg)'?
Pg 63, all sections
This graph is used when you want to easily visualize the size of parts of a whole.
What is a 'Circle Graph'?
Pg 75, Circle Graph section
Other than science, this other field is mentioned to use experiments to understand consumer preferences.
What is 'Marketing'?
Pg 70, Recognizing Experimental Variables When They Are Not Obvious
In module 3, it is noted that most scientists perform a _______ of experiments to develop good conclusions about something.
What is a 'Series (of experiments)'?
Pg 65, Using a Series of Experiments section.
This is the body of water, located between Jordan and Israel, is made of saltwater causing people who swim in it to float.
Bonus: This is the reason why it is named what it is.
What is the 'Dead Sea'?
Pg 60, figure 3.3
What is 'It has no (major) life)'?
In this module, this is considered a must for every table made for experiments.
What is a 'Title'?
Pg 64, first paragraph
This type of graph makes it easy to see the changes between two points of data.
What is a 'Line Graph'?
Pg 76, Line Graphs section
In this type of experiment, neither the experimenter nor the participants know the objects identities in the setup.
What is a 'Double Blind (Experiment)'?
Pg 72, BTD
In experiment 3.2, this variable determined how long the candle burned in the different sizes of containers.
What is '(Amount of) Oxygen'?
Pg 66, first paragraph
Designing a good experiment is done by _______ the number of variables.
What is 'Reduce'?
Pg 62, first paragraph.
This is the variable of an experiment to which all others will be compared.
What is a 'Control'?
Pg 66, BTD
This type of graph is used when you want to compare the relative sizes of 2 sets of data.
What is a 'Double Bar Graph'?
Pg 73, More on Bar Graphs section
Data collected that is based on people's opinions are considered this type of data.
What is 'Subjective (data)'?
Pg 72, second paragraph
In experiment 3.3, the water being drawn into the glass after the flame went out was due to this happening to the pressure inside the glass.
What is 'Reduced'?
Pg 69, last paragraph
Identifying variables in an experiment helps you to avoid these.
What are 'Flaws'?
Pg. 58, first paragraph.
In the textbook, this type of graph was used to show the data collected for experiments 3.2 and 3.3.
What is a 'Bar Graph'?
Pg 68, first paragraph
This type of graph is considered a concise, clear and easy to read way to read data.
What is a 'Info-graphic'?
Pg 79, Figure 3.20
This type of data does not require setting up a blind or double-blind experiment.
What is 'Objective (data)'?
Pg 73, second paragraph
This scientist is noted as having used the scientific method correctly, but due to flawed experimentation, his conclusions about Mars were incorrect.
Who was 'Percival Lowell'?
Pg 57, introduction.