The 5th step of the Scientific Method
What is the analysis?
The variable that remains constant.
What is the control variable?
Making detailed observations and recording them.
What is experiment?
A prediction or "best guess" based on facts
What is the hypothesis?
The 1st step of the scientific method.
The variable that changes during the experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The dependent variable in the paper airplane experiment.
What is how many feet the airplane flew?
A record of what happened in the experiment.
What is Analysis?
The last step of the Scientific Method.
What is the conclusion?
The variable that changes as a result of the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
The probability of flipping a heads or tails on a penny.
What is 50/50?
Testing your hypothesis
What is experiment?
The 3rd step of the scientific method.
What is the hypothesis?
The independent variable in Moby's fig plant experiment.
What is the amount of water?
The least dense liquid in the density lab?
What is oil?
Gather information about the problem from people, books or the internet?
What is research?
The 2nd step of the Scientific Method
What is research?
The dependent variable in Robo's talking to plants experiment?
What is how tall the plants grew?
The control variables in the paper airplane experiment. Name 3.
The weather, the wind speed, the starting place.
What is the conclusion?