Experimental Design
Science Definitions
Planets
Moon
Miscellaneous
100
What is a hypothesis?
an educated guess
100
Define placebo
A "dummy" pill, medicine, or precedure to test if healing comes from actual medicine or a mind thing
100
The fifth planet from the sun
Jupiter
100
The moon revolves around this circular object
Earth/planet
100
This class of organisms has hair, warm-blooded, has live young, feed babies with milk, and breath with lungs
mammals
200
Name the steps in the scientific method?
1. State the Problem 2. Make a hypothesis 3. Conduct an experiment 4. Analyze data 5. Draw conclusions
200
What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative data?
Quantitative data are values that have been measured or counted (numbers)...Qualitative data describe properties or charactieristics (qualities) that are used to identify things.
200
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have this in common
rings
200
Extreme tides occur during these types of moon phases
Full/New moon
200
The inventor of the telescope
Galileo Galilei
300
What was thought to be the potential cause of Pellegra?
corn, germs/bacteria, germs, poor diet
300
A person who studies relationships between organisms and the environment
an ecologist
300
This keep the planets in orbit around the sun
Gravity/Gravitational pull
300
This occurs when the moon is directly between the sun and the Earth
Lunar Eclipse
300
The difference between a food chain and food web
food chain shows one organism at the top whereas a food web shows multiple organisms and the variety of things they eat (no organism as the top)
400
What is a clinical trial?
A clinical trial is an experiment performed on a group of people or animals to test a hypothesis
400
A complete orbit around the Sun
revolution
400
Pluto (which not considered a planet anymore) sometimes interferes in this planet's orbit making it the 8th farthest from the sun
Neptune
400
The first man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
400
The interaction between communities of living things and the nonliving environment
Ecosystem
500
Why is an "informed consent" required before performing a clinical trial?
To get permission to participate in the clinical trial and to ensure that the participant has been informed of the risks
500
A scientist that studies objects and events beyond the Earth's atmosphere
Astronomer
500
The inner planets consist of these 4 planets.
Mercury, Mars, Venus, and Earth
500
the number of phases of the moon
8-Waxing Cresent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full, Waning Gibbous, Third Quarter, Waning Cresent, and New moon
500
The placebo group is also called this.
The control group