Scientific Method
Another word for "test"
What is experiment?
Sphere that includes rivers, lakes, oceans, and Earth's water.
What is hydrosphere?
Light bounces off of an object.
What is light reflection?
One of the earliest ways to send messages using a pattern of short and long beeps or a pattern of dots and dashes.
What is Morse Code?
Give the value for x in the coordinates (-3,4).
What is -3?
An educated guess.
What is an hypothesis?
Sphere that consists of all the living things on Earth. (plants, animals, and humans)
What is the biosphere?
Light travels from one place to another.
What is light transmitted?
Patterns are transmitted from one device to another through.
What is radio waves?
Give the value for x in (8, 4)
What is 8?
While experimenting, the experimenter should also...
What is record data?
Sphere that includes the Earth's land, rocks, and soil.
What is the geosphere?
When an object takes in light.
What is light absorption?
To convert a code into something people can understand.
What is decode?
Give the value for y in (-7,-3).
What is -3?
When a hypothesis is proved to be false.
What is hypothesis rejected?
Sphere that includes all the gases surrounding the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
When light changes directions because it has to travel through something else
What is light refraction?
The brains of electronic devices that sends and receives patterns that help them work.
What is a microchip?
Give the value for y in (9,0)
What is 0?
The variable that depends on the independent variable.
What is a dependent variable?
When pieces of the Earth are broken down through weathering.
What is erosion?
Colors (light/dark) that absorbs more light energy and reflects less.
What is dark colors?
The process of giving a computer instructions in a language it can understand. Also called "coding."
What is computer programming?
Coordinate points (3,0) is on the __-axis.
What is x (or x-axis)?