Vocabulary
Tools
Measurement
Variables
Graphing
100
An observation that describes what you sense.
What is a qualitative observation?
100
A wide-mouthed container used to transport, heat or store substances
What is a beaker?
100
The base unit for length in the metric system.
What is meter?
100
What is the variable that is manipulated or changed by the experimenter?
The independent variable
100
This variable goes on the y-axis.
What is the dependent variable?
200
The series of steps that are followed to solve problems and answer questions.
What is the scientific method?
200
A device used for pouring a liquid into a small opening.
What is a funnel?
200
Used to measure mass.
What is a balance ?
200
The variable that is measured.
What is the dependent variable
200
This shows the general trend on a scatter graph and goes through the average of the points.
What is the line of best fit?
300
How close a measurement is to its true value.
What is accuracy?
300
Used to transfer small amounts of liquids from one container to another.
What is a pipette?
300
The measure of the amount of space an object takes up and its base unit.
What is volume and liter?
300
The variables that remain the same for all trial in an investigation so that the experiment can be VALID.
What are the constant/control variables?
300
A good title for a graph.
What is "the effect of (IV) on (DV)"?
400
A well-supported explanation of the natural world (hint: explains WHY something happens).
What is a scientific theory?
400
What is a test tube holder?
400
Convert 930 g to hectograms.
What is 9.30 hectograms?
400
Part of the experiment used as a comparison (hint: this is not experimented on)
What is the control group?
400
These need to accompany titles on each axes.
What are units/labels?
500
Describes a basic principle of nature that always occurs under certain conditions (hint: explains WHAT happens).
What is a scientific law?
500
What is an evaporating dish?
500
How you convert in the metric system.
What is moving the decimal point when converting between units?
500
How does parachute size effect the rate of a falling object? The independent variable. The dependent variable. A possible control.
IV- What is the size of the parachute? DV- What is the rate of a falling object? Control- What is the same parachute, same starting height?
500
A good title and label for the x-axis in a study done to find how reaction rates (in seconds) affect the braking distance (in meters) of a car.
What is reaction rate (s)?