Vocabulary
The natural sciences are normally divided into life science, geology, and ________________ science.
What is physical science?
This is a testable explanation that leads to a scientific investigation.
What is a Hypothesis?
An ________ is an organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions.
What is an Experiment?
What you use to organize and record your data when looking for relationships among the variables.
What is a data table?
The type of data the scientists record from making observations based on measurements in science?
What is quantitative data?
_______ are the expected results of experiments, based on a given hypothesis.
What are Predictions?
Name 1 of the part that makes up scientific investigations?
What is a variable, hypothesis, or data?
Information recorded in graphs must include ______, ______, and _________.
What are title, labels, and units?
________ is the type of system used by scientists around the world to measure.
What is SI system?
This is an act of noting and recording data that can be detected with an instrument or the senses.
What is an observation?
This is a well supported explanation about the natural world.
What is a Theory?
A _______ graph is used to display and compare data in a number of separate categories.
What is a bar Graph?
A well-supported explanation of the natural world (hint: explains WHY something happens).
What is theory?
DAILY DOUBLE: Name three reliable sources that can be used when conducting research
What are the Internet (.org, .gov, .edu websites), recent encyclopedia and textbooks, or Scientific Journals and publications?
These are 3 types of scientific explanations.
What are Theories, Models, and Laws?
This is information gathered by observation or experimentation that can be used in calculating or reasoning.
Data
The axis that is used to plot the responding/outcome/variable.
What is the y axis?
Describes a basic principle of nature that always occurs under certain conditions (hint: explains HOW something happens).
What is a law?
________ __________ include descriptions of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures.
What is Qualitative Observations?
A scientific ________ is a representation of something in the natural world?
What is a model?
DAILY DOUBLE: How does parachute size effect the rate of a falling object? List the The independent variable and The dependent variable.
Independent variable: the size of the parachute
dependent variable: the rate of a falling object?
In some graphs, data displayed on the horizontal axis are the values of the ___________ variable.
What is the independent variable?