Scientific Knowledge
What is Science?
Scientific Investigations
Representing Data
Science and Society
100
This is what a scientist gathers during an investigation?
What is data?
100
This is the systematic study of the natural world.
What is science?
100
In this order, this is how a scientist improves the validity of an experiment; and to improve the accuracy this is when a scientist repeats an experiment to increase accuracy of their experiment.
What is replication and repetition?
100
This is a representation of an object or an event used as a tool for understanding the natural world. Helps us visualize something too big or too small to be seen.
What is a model?
100
Factors that can be changed in an experiment.
What are variables.
200
This is a scientific explanation that has been evaluated and supported by much evidence and reviewed by many peers.
What is a theory?
200
Science cannot answer questions about _______________.
What is art, music, religion, morality, personal preference, what is right, wrong, good, or bad.
200
We can see cells through this type of equipment
What is a microscope?
200
A globe is one of these.
What is a physical model?
200
This helped to challenge existing scientific knowledge and led supported the belief that micro-organisms, sometimes called germs, caused disease.
What is new scientific information?
300
This is when a scientist looks at the data to see if they will reject or accept a hypothesis.
What is analyzing data?
300
Tell what a system is and give an example of a system.
What is a collection of structures, cycles, and processes that relate to and interact with each other. Examples: vary.
300
This includes independent variables, dependent variables, controlled variables, a hypothesis that produce data.
What is a laboratory experiment?
300
This is a source of information that is trusted the most by scientist.
What is a scientific journal?
300
People can now connect to databases of information around the world because of this scientific invention.
What is the internet?
400
This is when a scientist chooses to make observations of organisms in their natural habitat.
What is fieldwork?
400
Name the three branches of Science.
What is Life Science, Earth Science, Physical Science.
400
This is the best graph to represent a time relationship.
What is a line graph?
400
This was the most important factor in the discovery of antibiotics?
What is scientific research?
500
This is when you follow a species during a specified time to learn more about them?
What is tracking?
500
Explain the difference between Scientific Law and Scientific Theory.
What is Scientific laws are rules that describe a pattern in nature. Scientific Theory is an attempt to explain a pattern observed repeatedly in nature.
500
This is when a scientist keeps one variable constant in all experiments so that they can test an independent variable.
What is the control variable?
500
Models save _________, __________, and ___________.
What is time, money, lives.
500
This has helped prevent millions of people from contracting certain diseases.
What is a vaccine?