What is the ways in which people change the world around them to meet a need or solve a problem?
100
The first step in scientific inquiry.
What is asking a scientific question?
100
Another name for the manipulated variable.
What is the independent variable?
100
Using one or more of your senses to gather information?
What is an observing?
200
The definition of science.
What is a way of learning about the natural world and the knowledge gained through the process?
200
The difference between science and technology.
What is technology changes the world, but science only observes to gain knowledge?
200
Two ways in which a scientist can communicate his results.
What is the internet, scientific journals, conferences, etc?
200
Another name for the responding variable.
What is the dependent variable?
200
There are 28 desks in the room.
What is a quantitative observation?
300
A qualitative observation.
What is an observation the deals with characteristics that can't be expressed in numbers?
300
The goal of technology.
What is to improve the way people live?
300
The second step of the scientific method.
What is formulate a hypothesis?
300
An experiment with only one manipulated variable.
What is a controlled experiment?
300
The difference between an inference and a prediction.
What is an inference is a possible explanation for an observation, a prediction is a forecast of what will happen in the future.
400
Making models
What is the process of creaing representations of complex objects or processes?
400
Two examples of technology and the way they have improved our lives.
What is any acceptable answer?
400
The two tools scientists utilize when collecting data and the purpose of each.
What is a table for organization and a graph to reveal patterns or trends?
400
The reason we only test one manipulated variable at a time.
What is you must test one at a time so you know that a change in the responding variable is directly related to the one manipulated variable?
400
4 examples of models in this room
What is any acceptable answer?
500
An operational definition
What is a statement that describes how to measure a particular variable or how to define a particular term?
500
An engineer.
What is a person who is trained to use both technology and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems?
500
5 attitudes that would be helpful for a scientist and their definitions.
What is curiosity, honesty, open-mindedness, skepticism, creativity?
500
The manipulated and responding variables in the following hypothesis: If I read Chapter 1 in my science book, then I will get a better grade on the test.
What is manipulated=reading the chapter, responding=grade on the test?
500
The purpose and definition of classifying.
What is putting items into categories that are alike in some way, for the purpose of organization.