Variables
Independent variable
What is the variable you intentionally change?
The first step in the scientific method
What is the purpose, question or problem?
Showing a preference for or against someone or thing
What is bias?
Using one or more of your senses to gather information
What is observation?
The study of landforms and earthquakes
What is earth science?
Controlled variable
What is a variable that is kept the same?
The third step in the scientific method
What is the hypothesis?
A way of learning about the natural world that includes all of the knowledge gained by exploring the natural world
What is science?
Explaining or interpreting the things you observe
What is inferring?
Chemistry and physics
What is physical science?
The variable you observe changes in
What is the dependent variable?
The second step in the scientific method
What is research?
Data or observations that are expressed in numbers
What is quantitative?
Making a guess of what will happen based on past experience or evidence
What is predicting?
The study of all living things
What is life science?
The dependent variable in the paper airplane experiment
What is distance flown?
The final step in the scientific method
What is communication?
Data or observations that are descriptive and do not use numbers
What is qualitative?
What is classifying?
Anatomy
What is a life science?
The independent variable in the paper towel lab
What are the brands of paper towel?
This is the step where you will most likely have a table and/or graph
What is recording your data?
A group used in an experiment that is used for comparison, no experimenting is done to it
What is a control group?
A representation of complex objects or processes
What are models?
Two examples of earth science
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