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Experimental Design
Scientific Method
Characteristics of Life
Lab Equipment
Kitchen Sink
100
"n" is the symbol scientists use to indicate this.
What is sample size?
100
This is the very first step of the scientific method.
What is observation?
100
There are this many characteristics of life. [in this class]
What is eight?
100
This is a piece of lab equipment used to manipulate liquids (stir, heat, mix) but can on occasion be used for measurement.
What is a beaker?
100
When a concept begins to explain a number of patterns or hypotheses, scientists call it this.
What is a theory?
200
These are the two main groups of subjects in any experiment; only one of them is manipulated.
What are the control and variable groups?
200
Data analysis allows a researcher to rule this out as a cause of his or her findings.
What is chance?
200
To be considered living, something must possess at least this many of the characteristics of life.
What is all eight?
200
This is the piece of lab equipment used to transfer very small amounts of liquid.
What is an eyedropper?
200
This kind of reasoning could be thought of as "big-to-small" thinking.
What is deduction or deductive reasoning?
300
A good experiment tests at least this many variables at one time?
What is one?
300
These are the two words scientists use to describe a good hypothesis.
What are testable and falsifiable?
300
This is the term for the process of taking in and processing sources of energy [food].
What is metabolism?
300
DAILY DOUBLE! Stefani Germanotta is the real name of this artist (musical).
Who is Lady Gaga?
300
This kind of reasoning entails starting with a theory and ending with an observation.
What is deduction or deductive reasoning?
400
This is the term given to a pill or supplement given to control group patients in medical studies and some others.
What is "placebo?"
400
This is an often-overlooked step that can lead to better experiments and more solid conclusions.
What is researching?
400
Living cells contain this kind of material that can be passed on to others. [be specific]
What is DNA?
400
This is the piece of equipment on which a sample is placed to view under a microscope.
What is a slide?
400
This is the period of time in which people began to look at various phenomena scientifically.
What was The Enlightenment?
500
This is the term given to a statistically-proven difference between two numbers. [Hint: It begins with "s"]
What is a significant?
500
This is the concept that there is no difference between variable and control groups in any given experiment.
What is the null hypothesis?
500
This is the term for maintaining "status quo" in the body? [status quo means normal, basically]
What is homeostasis?
500
This is a piece of equipment used to hold liquid, and is best for observing visual changes in smaller amounts of a substance.
What is a test tube?
500
This does not imply causality.
What is correlation?