the Scientific Method

What is the Scientific Method?

• A process that involves making predictions and doing cool experiments

• A way to explain something

• The name for a series of steps

• A process that scientists use to better understand the world around them.

Which step of the scientific method often uses 'if'...'then' sentences?

• the Hypothesis

• Research

• the Problem

• the Conclusion

In a controlled experiment, how many variables are tested at a time?

• Two

• Three or more

• One

• It depends what you're testing

A science student hypothesizes that tomatoes grown with music playing will have more tomatoes than those without music.

What is the Independant variable?

• Music played to tomatoes

• The amount of tomatoes

• The soil they are grown in

• The type of tomato

The control group is

• The group using the independant variable

• The goup that the scientist is controlling

• The group left alone and not experimented on

• The group that gives the data

The last step in the Scientific method is

• To make an observation

• To reach a conclusion

• To examine the data

• To design an experiment

What is an experiment?

• A way to test your hypothesis

• A way to create a result

• Doing a procedure that has never been done

• A way to get in a medical journal

A hypothesis is

• A prediction

• A possible explanation for an observation

• An educated guess

• All 3 other answers

An Ag student thinks her pigs will gain more weight eating a wet food rather than their usual dry pellets. She dedides to test it. Which group is the control group?

• The pigs on wet food

• The pigs she feeds first

• The pigs in the largest pen

• The pigs eating their usual dry pellets

Scientific Law is

• A theory that the government has voted on

• A hypothesis that has been tested many times

• An observed pattern in nature that has been tested and is universally accepted as true

• Laws that have been passed down since ancient times