Data & Graphing
A chart used to organize information collected during an experiment.
What is a Data Table?
A test that is performed to support or refute a hypothesis.
What is an Experiment?
The number of heartbeats per minute.
What is Heart Rate?
Data that can be measured or counted in numbers.
What is Quantitative Data?
A statement supported by evidence that answers a question.
What is a Claim?
A visual display of data patterns or trends.
What is a Graph or Graphing?
An educated guess or testable explanation.
What is a Hypothesis?
The number of times you can feel a heartbeat through your arteries per minute.
What is Pulse Rate?
Data that describes qualities or characteristics.
What is Qualitative Data?
The relationship between what you learned (conclusion) and what you think based on evidence (inference).
What is Conclusion vs. Inference?
How often something occurs during an experiment.
What is Frequency?
The group that gets the experimental treatment.
What is the Experimental Group?
A young plant just starting to grow.
What is a Seedling?
Limits or restrictions in an experiment.
What is a Constraint?
A well-supported explanation of how something in nature works.
What is a Scientific Theory?
The process of studying and interpreting data.
What is an Analysis?
The group that receives no treatment or a placebo.
What is the Control Group?
A sore or break in body tissue, often in the stomach.
What is an Ulcer?
Differences found among members of a species.
What is Variation?
A group of atoms bonded together.
What is a Molecule?
A summary of what was learned or proven in an experiment.
What is a Conclusion?
A fake treatment used to test the effects of a real one.
What is a Placebo?
The surroundings or conditions where an organism lives.
What is the Environment?
Information that supports a scientific claim or conclusion.
What is Evidence?
How often or quickly something happens.
What is Occurrence or Rate?