Semester 1 Mini-Review

If a scientific investigation is done well other scientists should get the same results.

Scientists NEVER try to prove anything - they are willing to accept any result.

The simplest form of a hypothesis or theory is accepted until data suggests otherwise.

Scientific studies are shared in papers, journals and magazines.

Scientists will study adisease and make changes to their understanding of the disease as more information is found.

What is the correct order of the Scientific Method?

The portion of the scientific method that deals with gathering and organizing data is:

The portion of the scientific method that deals with supporting or not supporting the hypothesis with specific data is:

What part of the hypothesis explains WHY a certain prediction was made?

The colors of student eyes in class include blue, brown, green, hazel and amber.

20.53 cm, 21.22 cm, 23.21 cm

Lilacs smelled the sweetest of all the flowers.

An outlier should be recorded in a data table, even if it isn't used to calculated an average.

Measuring wrong with a ruler is an acceptable error.

You keep everything that could affect the results the same for each trial.  This is called:

You want to know if darkness affects plant growth, so you put plants in a dark closet.

The measurements of the results are the:

The title of a graph includes the dependent variable (unit) vs. the independent variable (unit)