Scientific Questions and Hypotheses
Experimental Design
All About Graphs
I vs. O
A little Bit of This, A little bit of that
100
Can be tested
What is a good scientific question?
100
The first step in the scientific method
What is identify the problem?
100
A graph that we use to show change over time
What is a line graph?
100
a conclusion we come to based on the evidence we have
What is an inference?
100
The person who created the flask
Who is Erlynmeyer
200
An educated guess
What is a hypothesis?
200
Using one or more of your senses to gather information is called
What is an observation?
200
A graph that we use to compare different groups of data
What is a bar graph
200
The factor that may change in response to what we change in an experiment
What is a dependent variable?
200
Our proof or clues in an experiment that we use to prove our point
What is evidence?
300
All good hypotheses have these three words in them
What is "I think...because"
300
Part of the scientific method involves analyzing observations and data, and then making inferences from them
What is making a conclusion
300
A graph that we use to show parts of a whole
What is a pie graph?
300
What we change in an experiment
What is an independent variable?
300
Scientists who build things
What is an engineer?
400
Another name for scientific question
What is an experimental question?
400
Another word for information
What is data?
400
The independent variable is graphed on this axis
What is the x axis?
400
What we keep the same in an experiment to make the experiment fair and reliable
What is a constant?
400
steps we follow in our experiment
What is a procedure?
500
In the scientific method, scientific questions are also referred to as
What is a problem statement?
500
The number of times an experiment should be repeated
What is three times?
500
The dependent variable is graphed on this axis
What is the y axis?
500
A group or factor that we purposely DO NOT change in an experiment to compare our other variables to it
What is a control?
500
A process we use to solve problems
What is the scientific method?