Scientific Method

The first step in the Scientific Method is ___________?

• State your HYPOTHESIS

• RESEARCH

• MAKING AN OBSERVATION

• ANALYZING DATA

What step does every scientific experiment begin with?

• hypothesis

• question/problem

• background research

• conclusion

THE PART OF THE EXPERIMENT THAT YOU ARE INVESTIGATING

• CONTROL

• INDEPENDENT VARIABLE

• DEPENDENT VARIABLE

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A possible answer to your questions & can be tested with an experiment to see if it is true.

• Procedure

• Data

• Hypothesis

• Conclusion

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conclusion

• a collection of facts in a table

• an educated guess

• properties

• discussion of the results of an experiment

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What is a controlled variable?

• The variable being tested or changed by the scientist, also known as the manipulated variable.

• The variable that the

  scientist is measuring or

  observing, also known as the responding variable.

• The variables that the scientist keeps constant, which allows them to attribute the results to the independent variable alone.

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Commonly conducted to test a hypothesis

• variable

• science

• data

• experiment

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The scientific method is a process to _______ establish empirical facts through testing and observation.

• use a theory to

• use facts to

• subjectively

• objectively

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Place the following in order

• Experiment

• Analyze

• Question

• Conclusion

• Hypothesis

What is a constant/control in an experiment?

• Things that do not change in a experiment. It's the variable that stays the same. You can have many variables stay the same.

• It's the variables that the scientist changes in the experiment

• It's the variables that are being measured in an experiment

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