Steps scientists take when researching a scientific question
What is The Scientific Method
100
A scientist is publishing data, which is more important?
Cost of supplies, detailed list of procedures, shirt he was wearing, or where he did his research?
What is Detailed list of procedures.
100
What chart type has a key, rectangles representing value, and the dependent variable on the Y-Axis?
What is Bar graph/chart
100
This member of the Trinidad middle school team is from Mississippi
What is Ms. Claiborne
200
Independent Variable
What is the thing the scientist changes?
200
The 4th step of the scientific method
What is Plan and Conduct an Experiment
200
A scientist is doing an experiment. The first time he made a lot of mistakes
The second time he got the results he expected.
Should he repeat it again?
What is Yes. Scientists should always do multiple trials.
200
Which city is rainiest?
City Days of Rain
Seattle 154
Rochester 161
Buffalo 166
Miami 161
What is Buffalo
200
The school color of Center City Trinidad Campus
What is purple
300
Everything (except the IV/DV) that is kept the same during an experiment
What is control variable
300
A researcher observed one night that birds sang more at night. What does she need to do next?
What is research the problem/question.
300
Jim is Growing plants in different salt concentrations over and measuring height.
DV?
What is Height
300
Jim is measuring change over time, what kind of chart/graph should he use?
What is line graph
300
RGIII age
What is 23 years old
400
Hypothesis
What is an educated prediction about what will happen in the experiment?
400
Henry is growing plants. He reports his data by telling his friend one plant is taller than the other.
What should he do instead?
What is measure the plants and record the data in a table and/or graph.
400
Larry is riding his bike on different temperature days and recording how fast he goes.
Independent variable?
What is Temperature
400
Where do you look on a chart to figure out which color represents what?
What is the Key
500
An assumption based on prior knowledge an an observation
What is inference?
500
George has been discovering things in his private lab for years.
He doesn’t want anyone to know his secrets so he has told no one.
Why is this bad science?
What is He should be reporting his results because scientists report data.
500
What tool do you use to measure temperature
What is Thermometer
500
I use this while I record data during an experiment
What is a Table
500
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