Scientific Inquiry
This is a possible explanation for a problem using what you know and what you observe.
What is a hypothesis?
What are the two main branches of physical science?
What is chemistry and physics?
This is a visual display of information or data.
What is a graph?
Daily Double
Give an example of a dimension in measurement
What is mass, volume, length, weight?
Name the three types of scientific models.
What is the conceptual, physical and mathematical?
This variable is the one that is intentionally changed in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
Laboratory safety is not an important concern for scientists. T or F
What is False?
The degree of exactness of a measurement?
What is a precision?
What SI stands for in English
What is International System of Units?
In the laboratory, volumes of liquid are usually measured with a(n)
What is graduated cylinder?
What is the name of the process that includes the steps that scientists use to answer questions and solve problems?
What is scientific inquiry?
The model that is an explanation existing as an equation or computer model.
What is a mathematical model?
Daily Double
The ___________ variable goes on the x-axis and the ___________ variable goes on the y-axis.
What are: independent and dependent?
prefix for 0.001
What is milli?
Developing different kinds of useful technologies is just one aspect of obeying the Creation Mandate. T or F
What is T?
What activity is most important to scientific inquiry?
What is making observations?
When observing and recording the results of an experiment, observations may include both measurements and descriptions. T or F
What Is True?
The two types of data
What are quantitative and qualitative?
100 cm equal to _____ meters
What is 1?
At the end of an experiment, what must you infer?
What is a conclusion?
Daily Double
Describe difference in scientific theories and laws
or
Theories ________ and Laws ________.
What is...theories can explain why or how something occurs, but laws only state that it will happen always that way, under those circumstances?
explain and describe
Compares a measurement to its accept value.
What is accuracy?
What is a number and a unit?
prefix kilo means
What is 1000?
To test a hypothesis, a scientist could conduct a(n) ____.
What are experiments?