Scientific Practices
What is your five senses?
The application of science and mathematics to solve problems.
What is engineering?
Developed theories that could explain observation about the natural world.
Who are the Greeks?
A possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations.
What is a hypothesis?
Relationships that involve time or a sequence of events.
What is temporal?
To make patterns and relationships recognizable, scientists create these.
What are tables, charts, models and graphs?
A process of comparing the predicted benefits and costs of a solution.
What is cost-benefit analysis?
What is: botanist, biologist, engineer, oceanographer, nuclear physicist, chemist, geneticist
The factor in an experiment that is measured or observed.
What is the dependent variable?
Compares solutions by evaluating them against the design criteria.
What is a design matrix?
What is the dependent variable?
Once engineers identify a problem or need, they write this.
What is a problem statement?
George Washing Carver discovered that doing this technique would lead to a greater crop growth in future years.
What is rotating crops?
Limitations put on the design of a solution.
What are constraints?
An intentional or unintentional prejudice toward a specific outcome.
What is bias?
The use of numbers to describe what is observed in an experiment.
What is quantitative data?
Requirements or specifications for a solution to be successful.
What are criteria?
Scientist whose theory states characteristics of an organism can be passed from one generation to the next.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
A model that is used to test a design.
What is a prototype?
Plastic-like materials made from natural ingredients, such as corn or sugar.
What are bioplastics?
The final step of the scientific process.
What is communicating the results?
After testing and evaluating the design, the engineers might decide that the design is not behaving in the expected manner therefore them must do this.
What is redesign?
The most important criteria used to assess credibility.
What are accuracy and methodology?
A rule that describes a pattern in nature.
What is a scientific law?
What is an inference?