The refusal to accept an idea that is not backed up by evidence
What is skepticism?
100
John has two plants in two pots. Both receive water, sunlight and fresh air. He adds lemonade to the water of one of the plants. He compares the growth of each. What part of the experiment is the lemonade?
What is independent variable?
100
The study of living things
What is biology?
200
Inquiries done outside the laboratory in a natural setting
What is fieldwork?
200
A tentative explanation for a set of observations
What is a hypothesis?
200
Variables in an experiment that are not changed are this
What are contants?
200
John has two plants in two pots. Both receive water, sunlight and fresh air. He adds lemonade to the water of one of the plants. He compares the growth of each. What part of the experiment is the "growth"?
What is dependent variable?
200
The study of Earth's surface and interior
What is geology?
300
Three parts of a hypothesis
What is "if, then, because"?
300
A way to play with ideas and try different approaches to problem solving is called -?- thinking
What is creative?
300
The one part of an experiment that the scientist changes
What is an independent variable?
or manipulated variable?
300
John has two plants in two pots. Both receive water, sunlight and fresh air. He adds lemonade to the water of one of the plants. He compares the growth of each. What is the control group?
What is - plants that do not get the lemonade?
300
The study of the properties and interactions of substances
What is chemistry?
400
Examining part of a group and then using the results to draw conclusions about the entire group
What is a survey?
400
A method of analyzing problems that depends on logic or correct reasoning is -?- thinking
What is critical?
400
The factor in an experiment that is affected by the independent variable
What is the dependent variable?
400
John's mother kept his baby teeth as he lost them. John wanted to see if Pepsi changed tooth color. He put half the teeth in water for seven days and half the teeth in Pepsi for seven days. Then he compared the color of the teeth. The independent variable is the ...
What is Pepsi?
400
The study of energy and matter
What is physics?
500
In the courts of law and the world of science, something is true only if it is supported by this
What is evidence
500
A well tested explanation that brings together many sets of observations and has withstood the test of time
What is a theory?
500
A group in an experiment that is used for comparison and that does not get the independent variable
What is the control group?
500
John's mother kept his baby teeth as he lost them. John wanted to see if Pepsi changed tooth color. He put half the teeth in water for seven days and half the teeth in Pepsi for seven days. Then he compared the color of the teeth. The dependant variable is the ...