The reason why I can't do an experiment to answer this question:
-How hot does what have to be to give you third degree burns?
What is because it would cause injury (unethical)?
100
The variable that the scientist changes.
What is the independent variable?
100
The front cover of the report.
What is the title page?
100
The name for the procedure that scientists use to answer questions.
What is the scientific method?
200
The step where you write a statement about what you think the answer to your question is.
What is Develop a Hypothesis?
200
What you should do before you do the experiment "for real", if possible.
What is do a test run or trial run?
200
The variable(s) that DO NOT change.
What is (are) the constant variables?
200
A brief paragraph about what you are studying.
What is the background information?
200
This website is not an acceptable resource for information.
What is wikipedia?
300
Listing the materials and writing a step-by-step procedure.
What is the Design Experiment step?
300
During the experiment, you need to record data into one of these.
What is a data table?
300
The variable that changes during the experiment because of changing the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
300
Observations, data tables, graphs, explanations of graphs.
What is the results and interpretations section?
300
This type of graph compares part to whole.
What is a circle graph or pie graph?
400
The step where you write a lab report.
What is Communicate Results?
400
"If I give a plant more water, it will grow taller."
This is an example of this part of the scientific method.
What is a hypothesis?
400
You are doing an experiment on plants and sunlight. Each plant gets a different number of hours in the sun. At the end of the experiment, you record the height of each plant.
The number of hours in the sun is which variable?
What is the independent variable?
400
You are doing an experiment on plants and sunlight. Each plant gets a different number of hours in the sun. At the end of the experiment, you record the height of each plant.
How would I title this graph?
What is Amount of Sunshine vs. Height of Plant (or similar)?
400
This is when you take someone else's ideas and pretend that they are your own.
What is plagarism?
500
The step where you create graphs.
What is Analyze the Data?
500
The group that you don't do anything with - or has a "normal" value for the independent variable.
What is the control group?
500
You are doing an experiment on plants and sunlight. Each plant gets a different number of hours in the sun. At the end of the experiment, you record the height of each plant. List 3 constants in this experiment.
(Any 3) - What are the soil, the type of plant, the size of plant at start of the experiment, how much water each plant receives, (etc.)?
500
The type of graph that compares one characteristic of several things.