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Scientific Vocab
Scientific Vocab
A series of steps designed to help you solve problems and answer questions
What is the scientific process?
Educated prediction that must be written as, "If...then...because..."
What is a hypothesis?
The scientific process starts with a
What is a question or a problem?
What is the independent variable:
Students wanted to test whether the color of light affects how tall plants grow. They placed 3 plants in sunny windows and used red, yellow, and green colored light filters over each one. They placed one plant in the window with no light filter. Each week, they measured the height of the plants.
What is different color lights?
This is setup in the experiment that does not change.
What is a control setup
This is the variable YOU change in an experiment.
What is the INDEPENDENT variable?
The process of obtaining information by using the senses is called a/an
What is an observation?
What is the dependent variable?
Ms. Beyer wanted to test if insect repellant will actually keep mosquitoes away. She sprayed insect repellent on 3 people and no insect repellant on 3 other people. She counted the number of mosquito bites they each received after 30 minutes.
What is number of mosquito bites?
How many variables should be changed in a controlled experiment?
What is only one variable at a time?
This variable is what you observe or measure in the experiment.
What is a dependent variable?
This is a test you conduct to test your hypothesis
What is an experiment?
What group is the control setup?
Your local farmer wants to grow the biggest pumpkin possible so she can win the “biggest pumpkin” contest at the state fair. She grows one pumpkin in manure and one pumpkin in regular soil, then determines their mass when they are full grown.
What is the pumpkin in regular soil?
The answer to an experimental question, based on evidence.
What is claim?
This is the setup in the experiment with no changes that you use for comparison
What is the control setup?
Once all the tests are completed and results are recorded you must do this
What is analyze data?
What is the experimental group?
Students wanted to test whether the color of light affects how tall plants grow. They placed 3 plants in sunny windows and used red, yellow, and green colored light filters over each one. They placed one plant in the window with no light filter. Each week, they measured the height of the plants.
What is the plants with red, yellow, and green lights?
A scientist is listening to the sounds that whales makes. The scientist is making an ____________.
What is making an observation?
Why do we only change 1 variable at a time?
What is, so that you know what caused the effect in the experimental setup.
The variables that remain constant and must be the same in both the control setup and the experimental setup.
What is control variables?
What tool would you need to gather the data in this experiment?
Your local farmer wants to grow the biggest pumpkin possible so she can win the “biggest pumpkin” contest at the state fair. She grows one pumpkin in manure and one pumpkin in regular soil, then determines their mass when they are full grown.
What is scale?