Scientific Method
What is the name of the method used to investigate a scientific question?
Scientific Method
What is the name of something that changes in an experiment?
Variable
What is a force?
A push or pull
What is data?
measurements or observations (descriptions) that show tell what happened in an experiment
What is the name for a scientist's educated guess that predicts what will happen in his experiment?
Hypothesis
What is the name of the variable that the scientist changes?
A. Independent Variable
B. Dependent Variable
C. Control Variable
A Independent Variable
If I throw something up into the air and it comes back down, what is the force pulling it back down?
Gravity
What does it take to be a scientist?
A. A goof ball
B. Being practical
C. Common sense
D. To be curious and to like to find answers to problems
D. To be curious and to like to find answers to problems
Once a scientist has decided on a question he or she wants to ask, then he or she needs to.....?
A. Get started on the experiment right away
B. Ask more questions
C. Research their topic in order to find out what others know
D. Collect data
C Research their topic in order to find out what others know
What is the name of the kind of variable that a scientist measures in his experiment?
A Independent Variable
B Dependent Variable
C Control Variable
B Dependent Variable
Name something that overcomes gravity.
Will accept any reasonable answer
How do you write a good experiment procedure?
include step by step instructions, give enough details so someone reading the experiment could repeat it exactly as you did it, include any necessary safety tips...
What is the last step of the scientific method?
Share your data
If I want to study how sunlight affects plant growth, I could put one plant by a sunny window and one in a dark closet, and I could measure the height of the plants as they grow. Name a variable that should be controlled or kept the same.
size of pot, type of dirt, amount of water given, temperature, number of seeds planted in a pot...
When you hold something in your hands, like books, why doesn't gravity pull them to the floor?
You are holding up the books with a force equal to gravity.
What is the section of your project called that lists all the items needed for your experiment?
Materials
What are at least 5 steps of the Scientific Method?
Ask a question
Background research
Test the Hypothesis
Tell others what you learned
Collect Data
If I have two plants, one by a sunny window and one in a dark closet, and I measure the height of the plants, what is the dependent variable? the plant location or the plant height?
plant height
In baseball, a fly ball happens when a player hits the ball high into the air. The player on the other team must wait for it to come down to catch it. Imagine that there was suddenly no gravity on Earth. How would a fly ball be different?
The fly ball would never come down.
Why is it good scientific practice to repeat an experiment more than once?
You might have made a mistake, and this helps you to know if your results are accurate