Scientific Method
This is formed in the scientific method after researching a problem but before experimenting.
What is a hypothesis?
This is the independent variable for the question: Which soil is best for growing plants the tallest?
What is types of soil?
This is the dependent variable for the question: Under which color of light will bean plants grow the tallest?
What is height of the bean plants?
What is an experiment?
This observation describes color, shape, texture
What is qualitative?
These are used to observe in the scientific method.
What are the 5 senses?
This is the independent variable for the question: Does caffeine help you to type faster?
What is amount of caffeine?
This is the dependent variable for the question:
Which design of paper airplane will glide the farthest?
What is distance the plane flies?
This is the logical approach of to solving a problem or hypothesis.
What is the scientific method?
True or False: Hypothesis must always be testable
True
This is why we do multiple trials of experiments.
What is to get repeated results to support our hypothesis.
The definition for the independent variable is
What is the variable that we change?
The definition of the dependent variable is
What is the variable being measured or effected?
This is an educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
This observation describes how much or how many
What is quantitative?
What step of the scientific method is where you analyze your data and decide if you answered the original question or your hypothesis?
What is the conclusion or the 5th step?
This is the independent variable for the question: Does the air pressure of a ball affect how far it is kicked?
What is air pressure?
This is the dependent variable for the question:
Does the amount of traffic affect the amount of sleep a kid gets?
What is amount of sleep?
Another name for a living thing
What is an organism?
List two quantitative and two qualitative observations
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This is the first step to the scientific method.
What is make an observation?
Volumes of gas are collected over a 5 minute period during a reaction. What is the independent variable?
What is time?
What is the dependent variable for the following question: In which type of liquid will a golf ball sink the fastest?
What is time it takes to sink?
Repeating the same experiment over and over again is an example of
What is replication?
List two examples of inferences
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