The Scientific Method
what is false?
The name of the horizontal axis?
What is x axis?
The data that you are measuring or recording in an experiment is the _______________________ variable.
What is dependent?
I would use this type of graph when I am comparing distinctly different groups.
What is a bar graph?
Observation or hypothesis
If the students study for their quiz, they are going to do well.
What is a hypothesis?
This is a possible/educated answer to the research question or
What is a hypothesis?
The name of the vertical axis
What is y axis?
Something that stays the same through the entire experiment
What is a constant or controlled variable?
A hypothesis is always the same thing as a theory.
What is false?
This statement is usually written in an if/then statement
This step answers your research question based on the data you collected from the experiment
What is the conclusion?
Ms. Saniuk wants to test if adding different liquids to her plant can increase its height. She adds 1 cup of apple juice to one plant, 1 cup of water to one plant, and 1 cup of Diet Pepsi to a third plant every day. After three weeks, she measures the height. The dependent variable is ________________
What is the height of the plants?
What is no?
This "group" in an experiment is treated normally and is used for comparison
What is the control group?
After scientists collect their data, they put it into a graph to find patterns. They are ______________ their data.
What is analyzing?
The variable placed on the x axis
What is the independent variable?
Ms. Saniuk wants to test if adding different liquids to her plant can increase its height. She adds 1 cup of apple juice to one plant, 1 cup of water to one plant, and 1 cup of Diet Pepsi to a third plant every day. After three weeks, she measures the height. The independent variable is ________________
What is the type of liquid?
Ms. Saniuk cleans half of the desks in her room with water and one half of the desks with a new soap solution and she measures how clean each desk gets. The water is the __________________ group.
What is control group?
A student measures how tall a plant gets. This is _____________________ data.
quantitative
Name the 6 steps of the scientific method
1. Observations and Questions.
2. Make a hypothesis.
3. Set up a Controlled Experiment.
4. Collect and Analyze Data.
5. Make a Conclusion.
6. Share and Publish Results
The number of variables the experimenter can change in the experiment
What is one?
I run an experiment that gathers how tall my plant grows over time. I measure it in inches every day for 7 days. List the label and units of my x and y axis.
X axis - time in days
Y axis - height of plant in inches
A student describes what a cell looks like including the parts inside. The student gathered _____________________ data.