Five Senses | Inference, Hypothesis, Observation, Prediction | Steps in the Scientific Method | Miscellaneous 1 | Miscellaneous 2 |
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What is auditory
The scientific term for hearing.
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What is a Prediction.
A special type of guess about a future event.
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What is the Scientific Method
This is a six step process for solving problems.
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What is Science.
A way of learning about the natural world.
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What is the Independent Variable
The thing in an experiment that is purposefully changed or manipulated by the experimenter.
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What is visual
The scientific term for sight.
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What is a Hypothesis.
A special type of prediction that tells how one variable in an experiment will affect another.
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What is Research
The third step in the scientific method requires one to identify what they know, what they want to know, what they learned, other questions they may have and the listing of sources.
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What is a Scientific Theory
A well tested scientific concept can become a
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What is a Controlled Variable
The parts of an experiment that stay the same throughout.
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What is tactile.
The scientific term for touch.
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What is an Inference.
An educated guess about a situation based on your observations.
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What is an Observation
To begin the scientific method, we first make a
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What is Quantitative Observation
This is an exact observation that describes something using a measurement tool.
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What is the Dependent Variable
The variable in an experiment that changes as a result of the manipulated variable (usually what is being measured).
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What is Oral
The scientific term for taste.
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What is an Observation.
Gathering of information using your five senses.
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What is a Conclusion
This step of the scientific method involves a summary of your results as well as whether or not your hypothesis was proven correct or not.
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What is Qualitative Observation
A person uses their five senses to describe this type of observation.
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What is a Hypothesis
"If I increase by study time by ten minutes, I will get a better grade on my test because I am more prepared" is an example of what?
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What is Olfactory
The scientific term for smell.
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What is an Inference.
The ground is wet, therefore it must have rained is an example of what?
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What is an experiment
In this step of the scientific method we gather and analyze data.
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What is a Hypothesis
This should always be written in an "if", "then", "will", "because" format.
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What is the independent variable.
Someone is doing an experiment to determine how winter temperature affects how tall a tulip bulb will grow. Temperature, in this instance, is what?
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