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Scientific Process
Observation and Inference
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What instrument would you use to measure the weight of an orange?
What is a triple beam balance
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The basic unit of length in the metric system is the ____________.
What is meter
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What does a line graph show?
How the dependent variable responds to the changes in the independent variable
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A possible answer to a scientific question is a
What is a hypothesis
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What type of observation deals with amounts or numbers?
What is a quantitative observation
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What type of item would you measure using a balance?
What is solid object
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The amount of space an object takes up is its _________________.
What is volume
200
The horizontal axis or x-axis of the graph contains which variable?
What is the independent variable
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During a controlled experiment, if you purposely change the temperature to test a hypothesis, the temperature is the _______________ variable
What is independent
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What type of observation deals with descriptions?
What is a qualitative observation
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The metric system of measurement is based on the number ______________.
What is ten
300
How do you calculate density of an object?
What is mass / volume
300
A variable that changes in responses to another and is on the y-axis is which variable?
What is the dependent variable
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A scientific hypothesis must be __________________
What is testable
300
Explaining or interpreting observations based on reasoning from what you already know is called an ______________
What is an inference
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In SI, what is the basic unit of measurement for temperature?
What is Kelvin
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In SI, the gram is the basic unit of _______________
What is mass
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In a Results section of an experiment what two forms of data would you find displayed?
What is a data table and a line graph
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What is the correct order of the steps in the scientific process
What is Observation, question, hypothesis, experiment, results, conclusion.
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Using one of more of your senses to gather information
What is an observation
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In SI, what is the boiling point in Kelvin?
What is 373 degrees
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How are mass and weight different?
Mass refers to the amount of matter in an object and weight refers to the amount of matter in an object with gravity acting on it.
500
Name 4 components that all line graphs must have?
What is a key, title, axis labels, number scale, and data points.
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Why is it important to have a control group in your experiment?
In order to keep things constant aside from the independent variable in order to have valid results.
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Give an example of a qualitative and quantitative observation.
The chairs are blue. There are 27 student desks.