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Scientific Method
Scientific Skills
Experiments
Vocab.
Misc. Science
100
The possible answer to a question in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
100
The forecasting of what WILL happen.
What is predicting?
100
The facts, figures, and evidence gathered through an experiment.
What is data?
100

Scientific representation of complex objects or processes.

What is a model?

100

The field of science that studies living things

What is biology?

200
The ONE thing that changes in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
200
When you explain or interpret the things you observe.
What is inferring?
200
The type of experiment when only ONE variable is changed at a time.
What is controlled experiment?
200

The process for learning about the natural world.

What is the scientific method

200

The field of science that studies outer space

What is astronomy

300
The response to the independent data which is the data collected or measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
300
The grouping of like characteristics.
What is classifying?
300
Three tools used to organize data.
What are tables, charts, graphs?
300

Name the two types of observations you make in an experiment

What are qualitative and quantitative observations

300

Which of these is real scientific field: cosmology, astrology, numerology

What is cosmology

400
The variables that should remain the same in a lab.
What is the controlled variables?
400
Comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion.
What is evaluating?
400
What a scientist must do to publish results.
What is have repeated trials with the same results?
400

Having an attitude of doubt.

What is skepticism?

400

The field of Science that studies fossils of ancient organisms

What is palaeontology

500
If I am testing which ball bounces the highest this is the dependent variable.
What is the ball bounce height?
500
The skill I use if I think it WILL rain.
What is predicting?
500
The difference between theories and laws.
What is a law can NOT change and a theory can change with new evidence?
500
Knowing between right and wrong.
What is ethics?
500

The field of Science that studies the brain

What is neurology