Scientific Method
The first step in the scientific method
What is asking a question?
This type of graph is best for showing parts of a whole.
What is a pie graph?
These are detailed steps of something, like the scientific method or opening your locker?
What is a procedure?
This scientist is famous for developing the theory of relativity, including the famous equation E=mc²
Who is Albert Einstein
This is a a factor in an experiment that can change.
What is a variable?
An educated guess you create based on observations that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
This graph is used to show change over time.
What is a line graph?
This is the the process of studying the natural world through observation and experiment.
What is science?
This scientist is known for developing the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This is the variable that you change on purpose.
What is the independent variable?
You do this after you collect and analyze your data.
What is a draw a conclusion?
This graph is used to compare categories or groups.
What is a bar graph?
This is a phenomena cannot be tested by science.
What is supernatural?
This is the scientist who developed the theory of gravity after observing a falling apple?
Isaac Newton
This is is the variable that is measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
Scientists do this during an experiment gather information and collect data.
What is an observation?
This is the term for the type of graph that uses pictures to help clarify or tell information about the data.
What is a pictograph?
This is what scientists use as proof to support their conclusions
This person is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in both Physics and Chemistry for her work on radioactivity?
Who is Marie Curie?
This is a factor that stays the same in all parts of an experiment.
What is the controlled variable?
What do you do if your hypothesis does not match up with your conclusion?
What is revising our hypothesis?
This is another word for facts or information gathered from observations or experiments.
What is data?
This is an explanation of the natural world that is well-supported by evidence.
What is a theory?
Who is the best science teacher in the building?
Who is Mrs. Hutto?
In our "Will the egg float in salt water" experiment, this was the independent variable.
What is salt water?