Vocabulary
A series of steps designed to help you solve problems and answer questions.
What is the scientific method?
An idea or a guess that can be tested and guides the investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
What is an example of an observation?
*state observation*
Is ScIeNcE cOoL?
yEseSeSeS
Using your clues to draw a conclusion.
What is an inference?
A procedure carried out to gather data about an object or an event.
What is an investigation?
What is an example of a hypothesis?
*state hypothesis*
What is the difference between observations and inferences?
Observations use your five senses to gain information about something, and inferences are guessed based on those observations.
The process of obtaining information by using the five senses.
What is an observation?
Information collected during a scientific investigation.
What is evidence?
A tool for looking at objects too small to be seen with the eye alone.
What is a microscope?
What are the two types of observations?
What are qualitative and quantitative observations?
Individual facts and items of information you observe.
What is data?
Reading what others have written and asking experts to learn the information needed to answer a question.
What is research?
What is an example of an inference?
*state inference*
What can be seen under a microscope?
What are bacteria, cells, microorganisms?
A tool used to measure forces, such as weights, in units called newtons.
What is a spring scale?
A tool that measures mass with units called grams.
What is a pan balance?
A summary of the data, your findings from your investigation.
What is a conclusion?
What is transpiration?
What is plants giving off water vapor?