Scientific Method
Educated guess
What is a Hypothesis?
Cells
What is Life Science or Biology?
The variable that you change on purpose.
What is the independent variable?
The first step in any engineering process
What is “define the problem”?
Type of graph to use if your data is qualitative
What is a bar graph or pie chart?
List of steps in an experiment
What is a procedure?
Chemistry
What is Physical Science?
The variable that you keep the same in an experiment
What is the control or constant?
A model to test that can easily be changed.
What is a Prototype?
Type of graph to use if your data is quantitative.
What is a scatter plot?
Section where you talk about the general trend and any outliers.
What is Results?
Moon
What is Earth Science?
Data that has numbers and units.
What is quantitative data?
The name of the limits or things you can’t do
What are constraints?
Name three types of models.
What are Physical, computer, and mathematical
The section where you determine if your hypothesis was supported by your data?
What is the Conclusion?
Engineering field that designs bridges and roads
What is a Civil Engineer?
Colors and other adjectives (type of data)
What is Qualitative?
Listing everyone’s ideas without judgement or limitations
What is Brainstorming?
The dependent variable in this hypothesis:
If I study more, my grades will be higher because I will remember the facts easier.
What are my grades?
List six steps in the scientific method.
What is Question, Research, Hypothesis, Procedure, Results (Analyze), Conclusion (Share)?
Engineering field that builds rockets and planes.
What is an Aeronautical Engineer?
The variable that you record under the trial section of the data table.
What is the dependent variable?
Name all 6 steps in the process
What is define the problem, research or explore, brainstorm, design, test it out, evaluate... repeat?
The force that causes a car to roll down the ramp.
What is Gravity?