Scientific Method

What is the first step of the scientific method?

• Research the topic

• Communicate Results

• Ask a scientific question

• form a hypothesis

What can you do to research?

• read books

• look up topic on the internet

• consult experts

• all of the above

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an educated guess; an explanation based on prior scientific research that can be tested (lowercase)

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Something that can change in your experiment, has three different types (lowercase)

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What is an independent variable?

• the factor being tested in order to test the hypothesis

• used for comparison

• everything the scientist keeps the same

• result of what scientist changed

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What is a dependent variable?

• result of what the scientist changes, happens naturally

• identifies what you want to find out

• factor scientist has changed in order to test the hypothesis

• usually begins with "I believe that"

Which variable does the scientist not have control over? (all lowercase)

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You are doing an experiment where you put one plant in sunlight and the other in a dark closet. You give the same amount of water and the same type of fertilizer to both plants. What would be the constant in this situation? (MULTIPLE ANSWERS)

• water

• fertilizer

• sunlight

• closet

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What is a QUALITATIVE observation?

• anything you see, smell, touch, taste, or hear

• any observation that can be measured

• result of what the scientist changes

• a type of bias

What is a QUANTITATIVE observation?

• anything you see, smell, touch, taste, or hear

• any observation that can be measured

• what the scientist changes

• the hypothesis

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