Variables
Graphing
Scientific Method
Graphing II
Laws and Theories
100
Factors in an experiment that can be changed.
What is a VARIABLE?
100
This belongs on the top of every graph you make.
What is a TITLE?
100
This is something that kickstarts the whole Scientific Method
What is OBSERVATION?
100
The independent variable in this graph.
What is the type of book?
100
Scientific theories must overcome this to be more accepted
What is controversy?
200
The variable deliberately changed by the scientist to test a hypothesis
What is a INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?
200
What is the name of the horizontal (side to side) axis?
What is X-AXIS?
200
An educated prediction for what might happen in an experiment. (A Scientific explanation for a set of observations.)
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
200
The title for this graph
What is Books in a Kid's Library?
200
A broad statement that covers many hypotheses. Explains, has been well-tested for a wide range of observations and experimental results and makes predictions about future observations. Has yet to be disproven
What is A SCIENTIFIC THEORY?
300
The variable that you observe or measure during an experiment.
What is a DEPENDENT VARIABLE?
300
Where is the Independent Variable traditionally located on a bar graph?
What is the X-Axis?
300
Serves as a comparison, with the one variable that is being tested is removed.
What is the CONTROL GROUP?
300
The dependent variable in this graph?
What is number of books?
300
describes, what is expected to happen EVERY time under particular conditions.
What is a SCIENTIFIC LAW?
400
Something that stays the same to keep an experiment fair.
What is a CONSTANT?
400
The variable typically located on the Y-axis.
What is the DEPENDENT VARIABLE?
400
Numbers; Obtained by counting or measuring that collect in an experiment.
What is QUANTITATIVE DATA?
400
The Dependent Variable in this graph.
What is number of facts?
400
A statement that is not scientifically provable in the same way as facts, laws, hypotheses of theories.
What is a belief?
500
The number of variables that you can change in an experiment.
What is one?
500
A pie chart is used for this.
What is to compare percentages of a whole?
500
A list of things you do to perform the experiment(not Scientific Method).
What are PROCEDURES?
500
The independent variable in this graph
What is the day?
500
Give one example of a scientific law
What is ___________________?
Law of universal gravitation
Newtons 1st-3rd law of motion
Law of conservation of matter
Law of conservation of energy
1st-3rd law of thermodynamics