This is an explanation for a naturally occurring event or phenomena.
What is scientific theory?
100
An educated guess.
What is Hypothesis?
100
The average number.
What is Mean?
200
This resembles science, but doesn't use the scientific method.
What is psuedoscience?
200
This is a description of a specific relationship under given conditions in the natural world.
What is scientific law?
200
This is used for comparison in an experiment and does not receive the treatment.
What is the Control Group?
200
This type of data has to do with numbers and accurate measurements.
What is Quantitative Data?
300
The 3 main types of science (not examples)
What is Physical, Earth, and Living?
300
Double Jeopardy! Worth Double the points!
The name of the laws that describes how planets orbit a star.
What are Kepler's Laws?
300
This is a representation of an object or system that is too big or too small to study.
What is a Model?
300
This variable is usually represented in the X axis.
What is Independent (Test) Variable?
400
Observations and data that is gathered to support scientific explanations.
What is Empirical Evidence?
400
A scientific theory gets reevaluated when this happens.
What is new evidence/information?
400
Identify the I.V. and D.V. in this scenario. Mrs. Mele wants to determine the rate of evaporation of various liquids by heating them to different temperatures.
What is...
I.V.: Temperature
D.V.: Evaporation Rate
400
1 kilometer is this many millimeters.
What is 1,000,000 mL?
500
This is the personal trait of a scientist stimulates scientists to develop questions about the natural world.
What is Curiosity?
500
Both scientific laws and theories require experimentation, empirical evidence and this.
What is accepted by the scientific community?
500
This is the process in which other scientists copy your experiment identically.
What is Replication?
500
Double Jeopardy! Double the Points!!
Calculate the percentage.
352 8th grade students at Oak Hammock. There are 1282 total students enrolled. Round to the nearest hundredth.