Measurements
The base unit used to measure distance.
What is a meter?
This variable never changes.
What is the control variable?
What you see, hear, feel, smell or taste.
What is an observation?
The place where we write down our data.
What is a notebook?
Something worn to protect the eyes.
What are goggles?
The base unit used to measure volume.
What is a liter?
This variable is measured.
What is the dependent variable?
An educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
This is what we use to measure, liquid and volume.
What is a graduated cylinder?
A place to do scientific experiments and to learn.
What is a lab?
The base unit used to measure mass and weight.
What is a kilogram?
This variable is changed by the scientist.
What is the independent variable?
The information you gather.
What is data?
This is what we use to measure mass and weight.
What is a scale?
The imprint of a living thing preserved in rock or something else.
What is a fossil?
The way we abbreviate miligrams.
What is mg (small m small g)?
The definition of a variable.
What are factors that can be controlled, changed, or measured in experiments?
Testing a hypothesis to see if it is true.
What is an experiment?
This is what we use to measure length.
What is a ruler?
Knowledge and the process of learning about our world through experiments.
What is science?
The way we abbreviate milliliters.
What is mL (small m big L)?
When measuring plant growth if we change the amount of sunlight we give each plant but give them all the same amount of water the sunlight is this variable.
What is the independent variable?
The results of your experiment along with what you think it means.
What is the conclusion?
A tool for looking at very small things.
What is a microscope?
The method for testing hypotheses and theories about our world.
What is the scientific method?