Question | Answer |
What is a anemometer? | it's a weather instrument used to determine wind speed |
what is qualitative? | using your senses like it smells like grass. |
What is quantitative? | using numbers like how much it weighs. |
What is a compass used for? | it's a tool that is used to tell the cardinal directions of North, South, East, West. |
What dose prism do? | it breaks light into the colors of the rainbow. |
What dose a mirror do? | it reflects light toward a given direction (plane/flat). |
What is a fair test? | a test where only one factor is changed at a time. |
What is a variable? | a factor that can change the results of an experiment. |
What is a manipulated variable? | the one factor that is changed. |
What is a responding variable? | result, or response to , the changing variable |
What is a observation? | a qualitative and quantitative information gained by describing properties |
What is a prediction? | an inference made by what will happen in the future |
What is an explanation of an observation based on prior experiences or facts? | inference |
What are some characteristics of an anemometer? | measures wind speed in miles per hour (mph), should be vertical and needs to spin without obstruction |