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Math in Science
Science Inquiry Method
Otzi
Scientific Tools
Vocabulary
100
The word that means the number appearing most often in a set of data.

What is mode?

100

The beginning of an investigation

What is observing and asking a question?

100

The original conclusion of what the Iceman originally died from

What is freezing to death/the elements?

100
The tool we use for keeping track of the temperature of something.

What is a thermometer?

100

The study of the natural world and the investigations we complete to learn new things about the natural world.

What is science?
200
The word describing the number in the middle of a set of data points (ex. 1,5, 8, 8, 9)

What is median?

200

The last step in the Scientific Inquiry Method

What is communicate results?

200

give one example of how scientists found clues about Otzi's origin

X-rays, looking at food in the stomach, analyzing tools and clothing...
200
The tool we use for seeing faraway objects.

What are binoculars?

200

a spoken or written summary of observations

What is a description?

300

the process of moving from one unit of measurement to another unit of measurement

What is conversion?

300

The number of steps in the scientific inquiry process if we did not repeat any steps.

What is six?

300
the piece of evidence that convinced Professor Oeggl that the Iceman had died in spring

What is the whole hophornbeam pollon grain in his digestive tract?

300
Making sure we don't include the mass of a container when measuring the mass of an object while using a Triple Beam Balance

What is zeroing out?

300

Any factor that can have more than one piece of representing information

What is a variable?

400

_____ cm = 603m

What is 60,300 cm?

400
What happens if the results of a test do not support a hypothesis

What is revise the hypothesis and repeat testing?

400

the concluded path that Otzi had taken before his death 

What is he traveled from low elevation and then went back up into high elevation where he died?

400

The tool for measuring liquid

What is it graduated cylinder

400

The practical use of scientific knowledge

What is Technology?

500
The mean of the data set of (25, 24, 6, 45)

What is 25?

500
New technology and materials, and possible new explanations for science's biggest questions

What is the results of using the Scientific Inquiry Method?

500

The cause of death 

Shot by an arrow, bleeding out

500

The tool that measures the speed of the wind

What is an anemometer?

500

Using our prior knowledge and experience to decide whether we believe information given to us

What is critical thinking?