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Vocabulary
Scientific Method
The Investigation
Vocabulary II
Surprise!
100
something you do using your senses
What is observation?
100
Before you can make your hypothesis, you must first do what?
What is identify a problem?
100
The number of variables you test at any given time in an experiment.
What is one?
100
The conclusion that you make based on evidence is called this.
What is inference?
100
Not considered to be part of the scientific method.
What is opinion?
200
A statement of what you think will happen in an experiment
What is hypothesis?
200
You write down information, make charts, draw a graph, all of this is called?
What is collecting data?
200
For your investigation to be valid, your conclusion must be based on what thing.
What is facts?
200
Objects or ideas that represent things.
What is models?
200
Internet sites such as NASA, articles written by scientists, scientific journals are all examples of these.
What are reliable resources?
300
What you keep the same in an experiment.
What is a control?
300
After an experiment has been completed the scientist does this with his or her findings.
What is communicate your results?
300
The most important things to do when starting any part of an investigation is to __________________________.
What is ask the teacher questions?
300
Facts that make you believe that something is true.
What is evidence?
300
The conclusion you make after an experiment must be based on these.
What are facts and observations?
400
step-by-step instructions for completing a task or experiment
What is procedures?
400
This is when you test your hypothesis or prediction.
What is experiment?
400
When SpongeBob added fertilizer to his flower experiment, the fertilizer was this kind of variable.
What is independent variable?
400
When measurements are close to a known measurement.
What is precision?
400
This item was used in the paper towel experiment to measure water.
What is graduated cylinder?
500
The use of the scientific method to test your hypothesis.
What is experiment?
500
This is when you go over your results and determine if your hypothesis has been proven to be true or false.
What is analyze your results?
500
A scientific investigation is only vaild if this can be done.
What is replicated?
500
When measurements are consistently repeated.
What is accuracy?
500
This word is similar to hypothesis.
What is prediction?