Vocabulary
Science & Scientists
Scientific Methods
Safety in Science
Grab Bag
100
The knowledge obtained by observing natural events and conditions in order to discover facts and formulate laws of principles that can be verified or tested.
What is science?
100
A scientist who specializes in the chemistry of rocks, minerals, and soil is called a _______________.
What is a geochemist?
100
Valid results in an experiment require that the data is ________________, or can be repeated over and over again.
What is reproducible?
100
When reading the instructions for an experiment, you see a safety symbol with a picture of a flame. This symbol means ________________ ____________.
What is heating safety?
100
Writing a scientific paper, giving a presentation, and creating a website about the results of your experiment is part of this step of the scientific method.
What is communicate results?
200
Emergency medical care for someone who has been hurt or sick.
What is first aid?
200
A scientist who studies the atmosphere and most commonly works as a weather forecaster is called a ________________.
What is a meteorologist?
200
Two ways to keep yourself safe during experiments are avoiding accidents and _____________ accidents.
What is reporting?
200
A _______________ parameter is the factor that changes in an experiment.
What is variable?
300
The ways in which scientists answer questions and solve problems.
What is scientific methods?
300
The part of an investigation in which you look for information in books, on the Internet, or from experts in the field is called _____________.
What is research?
300
These are the steps of scientific methods.
What is make observations, ask a question, form a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, analyze the results, draw conclusions, and communicate results?
300
This important step takes place as soon as you finish a science experiment.
What is cleaning up?
300
In a scientific investigation, the purpose of an experiment is to test a ______________.
What is hypothesis?
400
A testable idea or explanation that leads to scientific investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
400
One way that scientists have answered the question, "How can people be protected during automobile accidents?", is ______.
What is requiring seatbelts, designing cars made with stronger materials,
400
A student wants to test if different types of water affect plant growth. The different parameters involved in this experiment are the type of water, the type of plant, the location of the plants, and how much water each plant receives. The controlled parameters in this experiment are ______________________.
What is the type of plant, the location of the plants, and how much water each plant receives?
400
The first step you should take if you see an accident happen is:
What is make sure you are safe?
400
Organizing data into a graph is part of this step of the scientific method.
What is analyzing data?
500
Pieces of information acquired through observation or experimentation.
What is data?
500
Two key steps needed to make scientific progress are ______________ and __________________.
What is asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations?
500
A student wants to test if different types of water affect plant growth. The different parameters involved in this experiment are the type of water, the type of plants, the location of the plant, and how much water each plant receives. The variable parameter in this experiment is ______________________.
What is the type of water?
500
You are conducting an experiment in which you use chemicals that could cause burns if the come in contact with your skin. The safety symbols you would expect to see in instructions for this experiment include:
What is wear safety goggles, wear a safety apron, poisonous chemicals are used, and/or wear protective gloves?
500
True or False: If the results of your experiment do not support your hypothesis, then your experiment was not successful.
What is false?