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living environment h
unit 1: scientific method
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Science | exploring and understanding the phenomena of the natural world |
| Science Experimentation | you take your knowledge of science and put it to practice |
| Hypothesis | an educated guess about an experiment before it is conducted |
| Observations | facts made by using your five senses |
| Conclusion | the evaluation of your observations |
| Independent variable | what you change or manipulate in an experiment |
| Dependent variable | what responds to the independent variable, is being tested in the experiment |
| Constants | stays the same in the experiment |
| What safety procedures should you follow when heating a substance? | Never put a cover on a heating liquid, wear goggles, wear heat protective gear, never point toward yourself |
| List the 7 parts of the metric system | Kilo, hecto, deka, units(grams, liters, meters), deci, centi, milli |
| Why do we repeat an experiment? | It makes the experiment more valid |
| What are the two things that make an experiment more valid? | Have large sample sizes and multiple traits, have a control and experimental group, and test one variable |
| What do you do with extra chemical solutions that you no longer need when working in a lab? | Ask your teacher what to do with the extra chemicals before immediately disposing of it |
| What are the 6 parts of a quality graph? | Title, do not connect to zero, zero unless its in the data, spread out data, determine the scale of the graph, label axes with units, and identify the independent and dependent variables |