Scientific Methods
There is only one scientific method, and all scientists follow it in exactly the same way. True or False?
What is False?
Science is a way of learning more about the ________________________.
What is the natural world?
The frog will jump into the water.
What is a prediction?
The color of a lollipop is this kind of observation.
What is a qualitative observation?
Factors that can be changed in an experiment.
What are variables?
Usually scientific investigations begin with one of these.
What is a question?
What is 100%?
The car is traveling at 5 km/h.
What is an observation?
If you are measuring the mass of something, you are making this kind of observation.
What is a quantitative observation?
The information you gather during an experiment that might be shown in a chart, graph, or table would be this.
What are data?
A prediction about the answer you expect to get from an experiment is called this.
What is a hypothesis?
This is why it is important for scientists to keep careful records of their experiments.
What is so that other scientists can repeat the experiment?
The deer ran into the forest because it sensed danger.
What is an inference?
The definition of an observation.
What is using the senses to gather information?
The answer that you get at the end of your experiment based on the data you collected would be this.
What is a conclusion?
The variable that is changed by the scientist.
What is the independent variable?
What is an important final step after scientists have results from their experiment?
What is share those results with others?
The clothes washed with Detergent A will be cleaner than those washed with Detergent B.
What is a prediction?
A stinky smell is this type of observation.
What is a qualitative observation?
When you make an inference, it should be based on this.
What is evidence?
You are measuring the effects of different diets on heart rate. This is the dependent variable.
What is the heart rate?
When something is too big, too complex, or too expensive to use for experimentation, scientists often use these.
What are models?
The area smelled like smoke.
What is an observation?
3 miles long is this type of observation.
What is quantitative?
The group you leave alone or treat normally in an experiment so that you can see if the tested variables really make a difference would be this.
What is a control group?