Give the Definition
Scientific Process
What is the steps scientists use to test?
A ___________ is the result of your experiment and is a statement that answers your scientific question.
What is a conclusion?
Olivia thought, "what would happen if I mixed Whoppers with peanut butter?"
What is a scientific question?
The one thing that is purposely changed to affect the result.
What is an independent variable?
How to appropriately name a graph
DV v/s IV
Data
What is information, facts, tables, charts, and graphs you record and create.
The two types of variables used in an experiment are the ____________ variable and the ____________ variable.
What is independent and dependent?
"If I mix bananas and strawberries it will taste like kiwi fruit."
What is a hypothesis?
The variable being measured.
What is the dependent variable.
This is what belongs on the horizontal axis on a graph.
What is the independent variable.
What is a guess based on evidence?
ie - the ground is wet, it must have rained.
what is an inference
Fill in the blanks
When speaking of macromolecules, a _________ is a smaller part of a _______________.
What is a monomer, polymer
Angela picked up her birthday present, shook it, and listened to the sounds it made.
What is an observation?
Jeff wonders if adjusting the length of the string will change how fast the pendulum swings.
The length of the string.
What is the independent variable.
A statement that says whether your __________ is proven or disproven is a conclusion.
What is hypothesis?
Observation
What is information gathered using your senses.
Ms. Humphrey is doing an experiment to see which type of coffee gives her more energy, K-cups or French Pressed Coffee. This is her independent variable.
What is the type of coffee?
I am wondering if elderberry reduces the average number of colds that people get in a year. The people who do not take elderberry belong to this part of the experiment
What is the control group.
Jeff wonders if changing the length of the string will alter the number of times it swings back and forth.
The number of swings back and forth.
What is the dependent variable.
Independent Variable
What is the thing that is changed to affect the result in an experiment?
A prediction about how the scientific question will be answered is the _____________.
What is hypothesis?
My hypothesis was proven because the plants in the sunlight sprouted before the plants in the closet.
What is a conclusion?
If in the course of an experiment, I put the plants in the sunlight and plants in the closet.
What type of variable is the amount of light?
What is the independent variable?
If you are looking at a chart full of data, what column is the IV in?
What is the first column