Scientific Method
The third step in the scientific method
What is the procedure?
The 3 types of variables.
What is controlled, independent, and dependent?
Weather is defined as.
What is the conditions outside right now such as temperature, humidity, cloud cover, etc?
The four types of fronts.
What are warm, cold, stationary, and occluded fronts?
The main cause of global warming.
What are human activities?
Two words that are required in a hypothesis statement.
What is "If" and "Then"?
The variable you change to get results.
What is the independent variable?
The tool used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
The weather that results from a high pressure system.
What is sunny, cool temps, and light cloud cover?
The atmosphere acts like this to the Earth.
What is a blanket?
The importance of publishing your results.
What is saving others from wasting their time by doing the same project?
I want to know if different amounts of fertilizer will make my plants grow taller.
The controlled variables in the experiment are...
Brand of fertilizer
Type of plant
Amount of water, sun, temp, etc
The type of cloud that is responsible for fog.
What is a stratus cloud?
The type of front that moves very slowly.
What is a stationary front?
The definition of carbon footprint.
What is the amount of carbon dioxide that one person produces in their lifetime?
These are the five steps of the scientific method.
What is problem/question, hypothesis, procedure, data & results, and conclusion?
Cinderella wants to know if the temperature outside will effect the speed of her carriage.
The dependent variable is...
What is the speed of the carriage?
The three types of clouds
What are high, mid, and low level clouds?
The system that causes warm temps, stormy weather, and heavy cloud cover.
What is a low pressure system?
The two gases that make up the majority of the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen and oxygen?
This is a step you should always do BEFORE beginning the scientific method. HINT: It is in between question and hypothesis.
What is research?
The independent and dependent variables are...
Carl wants to know if drinking diet soda will decrease his blood sugar.
Independent: Diet soda
Dependent: Blood sugar levels
The cloud that indicates a change in weather is coming.
What is a cirrus cloud?
Cold (blue and triangles)
Warm (red and circles)
Stationary (mixture of warm and cold)
Occluded (purple with both circles and triangles)
The five layers of the atmosphere in order with their purposes.
What are the troposphere (weather), stratosphere (ozone layer), mesosphere (meteors), thermosphere (hot), and exosphere (exit)?