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Measurements
Scientific Method
Scientific Theory vs. Scientific Law
Other Science Questions
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When you use your five senses to gather information about something.
What is an observation?
100
The basic unit of distance.
What are meters?
100
A process scientists and others follow to answer a specific question.
What is the scientific method?
100
This describes what happens under a given set of circumstances.
What is a scientific law?
100
Provide an example of when society did not immediately believe what scientists discovered.
Example: Heliocentric model
200
A visual representation of something that is difficult to observe.
What is a scientific model?
200
The basic unit of liquid volume.
What are liters?
200
Things you keep the same to ensure reliable results.
What are constants?
200
This explains how something happens.
What is a scientific theory?
200
a system of beliefs that have no data to support claims
What is pseudoscience
300
The expected outcome of an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
300
The basic unit of mass.
What are grams?
300
The thing you measure in the experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
300
Which has more evidence to support it: a scientific theory or a scientific law?
Neither, they both have a lot of evidence.
300
Our scientific knowledge is constantly changing as a result of what?
New evidence and new interpretations of old evidence.
400
A conclusion based on observations.
What is an inference?
400
The universal language scientists use to report their measurements.
What is the metric system?
400
This is what you compare your results to.
What is the control?
400
A scientific theory will ______________ become a scientific law.
What is never?
400
When you do your experiment again to collect additional data.
What is repetition?
500
An aspect that a model cannot share with the viewer.
What is a limitation?
500
The process of finding the volume of an irregular shaped object.
What is the water displacement method?
500
The number of independent variables you can include in a controlled experiment for it to be considered reliable.
What is one?
500
This scientific law states that the mass of the product of a chemical reaction is equal to the mass of the reactants.
What is the law of conservation of mass?
500
Why is it important for other scientists to replicate each others experiments?
To check if the results are reliable. More tests means more data to support claims.