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Vocabulary
Study of Science
Measurement
Variables
Miscellaneous
100
Description of how close a measurement is to the actual or true value
What is accuracy?
100
The natural sciences are normally divided into the life, earth/space, and ________________.
What is physical science?
100
The base unit for length in the metric system.
What is meter?
100
What is the cue question for the independent variable?
What is, "What am I changing?"
100
What you use to record and display your data when looking for relationships among the variables.
What is a data table or graph?
200
After makings observations you begin to draw these conclusions.
What is an inference?
200
The type of data the scientists record from making observations based on measurements in science?
What is quantitative data?
200
Two tools used to measure mass.
What is triple-beam balance (double pan balance) or a scale?
200
What is the cue question for the dependent variable?
What is, "What am I measuring?"
200
After making observations and inferences you create this which is a possible explanation of your observations and can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
300
The investigation and exploration of natural events that occur in the world around us.
What is science?
300
A representation of something in the natural world, typically too small or large to study up close.
What is a model?
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 variable?
300
If your hypothesis is proven correct this is the next step in the process.
What is repeat the test?
400
A well-supported explanation of the natural world (hint: explains WHY something happens).
What is theory?
400
DAILY DOUBLE: Name three reliable sources that can be used when conducting research (as you will be doing for science fair).
What are the Internet (.org, .gov, .edu websites), encyclopedia, nonfiction books, scientific periodicals/articles, or publications of other scientists' work?
400
Convert 930 g to hectograms.
What is 9.30 hectograms?
400
Name the control to the following experiment. How does the amount of water effect the growth of a plant?
What is no water?
400
The axis that is used to plot the responding/outcome variable.
What is the y axis?
500
Describes a basic principle of nature that always occurs under certain conditions (hint: explains HOW something happens).
What is a law?
500
Explain how to design a valid experiment.
What is to create experiment procedures that help to answer the problem question? OR What is to carefully design/control the variables in an experinment (constant, IV, DV)?
500
Explain why the metric system is much "easier" to use (not WHY scientist use the metric system).
What is it is based on the powers of ten? (all you have to do is move the decimal point when converting between units because of this).
500
DAILY DOUBLE: How does parachute size effect the rate of a falling object? The independent variable. The dependent variable.
What is the size of the parachute? What is the rate of a falling object?
500
Three science safety rules.
Many possible answers.