Includes a list of procedures, materials and safety concerns
What is the experiment?
100
A concept whose truth can be proven
What is a "Fact"
100
The factor that’s intentionally varied by the experimenter.
What is independent variable?
100
High Temperature cause apples to grow larger. The independent variable is ________?
What is High Temperature
100
Scientific Law is more proven and accepted than
What is "Scientific Theory"
200
An educated guess or predication
What is Hypothesis
200
Using one or more senses to gather information
What is "Observing"
200
The group that may be a “no treatment" or an “experimenter selected” group in an experiment.
What is the "Control Group"
200
High Temperature cause apples to grow larger. The dependent variable is ________?
What is "growth of the apple"?
200
Descriptions that involve the senses - taste, sight, touch, smell and hearing and don't involve numbers or measurements.
What is qualitative observations?
300
Statement that rejects or accepts the hypothesis
What is the Conclusion?
300
A way of learning about the natural world through observation and logical reasoning?
What is "Science"
300
There should only be one in every experiment.
What is "variable"
300
Students who study with the TV on results in lower test scores. The independent variable is
What is "TV being on during studying"
300
The 7 Steps of the Scientific Method in the proper order or sequence
What is
1. Problem /Question
2. Observation/Research/Inference
3. Formulate a Hypothesis
4. Experiment
5. Collect & Analyze Results
6. Conclusion
7. Communicate Results
400
The last step in the scientific method
What is "communicate the results"
400
Explaining your observations base on reasoning from what you already know?
What is "inferring"
400
Factors that the experimenter attempts to keep the same.
What are "Constants"
400
Students who study with the TV on will have lower test scores. The dependent variable is
What is "lower test scores"
400
Measured observations such as temperature, mass and length.
What is Quantitative Observations
500
After the experiment is completed, science are able to
What is 'Collect and Analyze the Data"
500
Factors that can change in an experiment
What is a "variable"?
500
Replicated groups that are exposed to the same conditions in an experiment
What are "Trials"
500
The "effect" or "if" statement of the hypothesis is know as
What is independent variable?
500
Responding variable, is the factor that may change as a result of changes made in the independent variable. It is known as the "then" part of the hypothesis statement.