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Vocabulary
Study of Science
Scientific Method
Variables
Miscellaneous
100
Description of how we conduct multiple trials.
What is repetition?
100
Name at least 3 different fields of science.
What is physical science?
100
The first step in a scientific method.
What is ask a question/define a problem?
100
What is the variable for the question, "What am I changing?"
What is the independent variable?
100
What you use to record and display your data?
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
If, then statements are....
What are hypotheses?
200
What variable answers the question?, "What am I measuring?"
What is the dependent variable?
200
Give at least 2 examples of some well known theories.
What are plate tectonics, cell theory, Big Bang theory, theory of relativity...?
300
The observations, measurements, and other types of data that scientists gather.
What is empirical evidence?
300
A representation of something in the natural world, typically too small or large to study up close.
What is a model?
300
The final step in a scientific method.
What is making conclusions/communicating findings?
300
The variables that remain the same for all trial in an investigation so that the experiment can be VALID.
What are the controlled variable?
300
If your hypothesis is proven correct this is the next step in the process.
What is replicate the test and/or share the results?
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
The reason a scientific method is not static (doesn't have to be completed in a certain order).
What are the steps are determined by the type of investigation?
400
Name the control group to the following experiment. How does the amount of water effect the growth of a plant?
What is no water?
400
The data collected through senses using observations is...?
What is qualitative data?
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
After asking a question and you make some observations and inferences, you create this which is a possible explanation of your observations and can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
500
DAILY DOUBLE: How does parachute size effect the rate of a falling object? The independent variable is the...? The dependent variable is the....?
What is the size of the parachute? What is the rate of a falling object?
500
Three science safety rules.
Many possible answers.