Scientific Method

Variables

100

Anything that changes in an experiment.

What is a VARIABLE?

200

The variable that you make different in order to test it.

What is an INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?

300

The variable that you observe or measure during an experiment.

What is a DEPENDENT VARIABLE?

400

Something that stays the same to keep an experiment fair.

What is a CONSTANT?

500

The number of variables that you can change in an experimemt.

What is one?

Graphing

100

This belongs on the top of every graph you make.

What is a TITLE?

200

What is the name of the horizontal (side to side) axis?

What is X-AXIS?

300

True or False: You don't need to label the bottom and side of a graph.

What is False?

Scientific Method

100

This step answers the original question.

What is a conclusion?

200

An educated guess or prediction for what might happen in an experiment.

What is a HYPOTHESIS?

300

The step of the scientific method where you make graphs, look for patterns, and think about what happened.

What is the ANALYSIS?

400

Numbers, observations, or information you collect in an experiment.

What is DATA?

500

A list of things you do to perform the experiment(not Scientific Method)

What are PROCEDURES?

Measurements

100

This is the basic unit for length in the metric system.

What is the meter?

200

This is the basic unit for volume.

What is the liter?

300

This is the basic unit for mass in the metric system?

What is the GRAM?

400

A measure of how much space an object takes up.

What is volume?

500

The amount of matter in an object.

What is mass?

Tools

100

The tool used to measure the length of an object.

What is a metric ruler or meterstick?

200

The tool best used to measure the volume of a liquid.

What is A GRADUATED CYLINDER?

300

A tool best used to measure the mass of an object.

What is a TRIPLE BEAM BALANCE or SCALE?

500

A good tool to use to measure the volume of a box-shaped solid object.

What is a metric ruler?