Question | Answer |
Descriptive Research | research based on observations. |
Controlled Variables | variables that changes, but aren't allowed to. |
Experimental Research | Answers scientific questions by testing a hypothesis through the use of a series of carefully controlled steps. |
Technology | applications of science to make products or tools people can use. |
Trend | a general direction in data. |
Experimental Design | a plan for deciding how to answer a scientific question. |
Scientific Theory | an explanation supported by facts. |
Dependent Variable | the factor that'll be measured in an experiment. |
Theory | describes ideas that've been tested and provides data for the ideas. |
Line Graph | used for showing changes or trends. |
Data Analysis | reducing the data: finding the average, graphing data, and looking for relationships. |
Independent Variable | the variable that has changed or tested by scientists. |
Scientific Method | step by step procedures of scientific problem solving. |
Qualitative | data that describes its qualities or characteristics: color sound taste. |
Laws | rules that describes a pattern in nature supported with mathematical evidence. |
Control Group | a group that has had nothing done to it. |
Inference | a conclusion drawn from an observation. |
Relationship | the effect of one variable to another. |
Science | is a way or a process used to investigate what is happening around you. A process of trying to understand the world. |
Bias | personal opinions, when points of view interfere in a investigation, or certain results expected. |
Bar Graph | used for showing comparisons. |
Quantitative | data that's numeral, gathered by using tools: mass distance, volume, time, temperature. |
Observations can be | qualitative and quantitative. |
Observations in science uses | senses and tools. |
Two general types of scientific research | descriptive/qualitative and experimental. |
Stating a research question you | describe the question you want to answer. |
Independent Variables are sometimes called | manipulated variables. |
Dependent Variables are sometimes called | responding variables. |
Controlled Variables are sometimes called | constant variables. |
A trend is | changes; increases, decreases in data. |
A pattern is | repeated data that is similar. |
A relationship is | repeated data that is similar |