Vocabulary
Vocabulary2
Science Question
Steps to the Scientific Method
100
An idea or explanation that you then test through study and experimentation.
What is a hypothesis?
100
Observations that use your senses to observe the results. (Sight, Smell, Touch, Taste and Hear)
What is Qualititative Observation?
100
The information you collect while doing your experiment is called _______________.
What is data?
100
Step one in the scientific method.
What is "Ask a question"?
200
Any factor that can be controlled, changed, or measured by an experiment.
What is a variable?
200
Observations are made with instruments such as rulers, balances, graduated cylinders, beakersm, and thermometers. These results are measurable.
What is Quantitative Observation?
200
The ___________ answers the problem you are trying to solve in an experiment and explains the results to others.
What is a conclusion.
200
The second step of the scientific method process.
What is "do background research"?
300
An experiment that isolates the effect of one variable on a system by holding constant all variables but the one under observation.
What is a control?
300
A test, trial, or tenatative procedure; an act or operation for the purpose of discovering.
What is an experiment?
300
A _____________ is what you can learn about an object by using your 5 senses.
What is qualitative observation?
300
The third step in the scientific method process.
What is "construct a hypothesis"?
400
A result, issue, or outcome.
What is a conclusion?
400
Information organized for analysis or used to reason or make decisions.
What is data?
400
Something that you keep the same in an experiment is called a _____________.
What is a control?
400
Step 4 in the scientific method process.
What is "test hypothesis by doing an experiment"?
500
The act or process of deriving logical conclustions from premises known or assumed to be true.
What is inference?
500
A set of instructions that perform a specific task.
What is procedures?
500
I want to know if low strength bleach, medium strength bleach, or maximum strength bleach will get Heinz catsup out of white T-shirts the best. What is the variable in this experiment?
What is the strength of the bleach?
500
5th step in the scientific method process.
What is analyze data and draw a conclusion?