Jeopardy Final Jeopardy Graphing Gathering Data Hypothesis Experiments Can you Tell me?? $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 Final Jeopardy

1 - $100 What type of graph is best used to with continuous data like time or temperature? Line Graph

1 - $200 What type of graph is used to show part of the whole? Pie Graph

1 - $300 What variable goes on the X axis? Independent Variable

1 - $400 What variable goes on the y axis? Dependent variable

1 - $500 What are four types of information needed on a graph? Title, label, scale and key

2 - $100 When we gather information using our senses we making what? Observations

2 - $200 When we take information and decide what is happening inference

2 - $300 I see three fire trucks go by and smoke in the distance observation

2 - $400 I decide there must be a house on fire Inference

2 - $500 Scientific method always begins with a Question

3 - $100 . In science, an educated guess is called a/an hypothesis

3 - $200 When a scientist finds that the hypothesis is not supported by the experiment he Makes a new hypothesis

3 - $300 When you decide whether or not the data supports the original hypothesis, you are Drawing conclusions

3 - $400 A hypothesis is the _________ step of the Scientific Method? 3rd

3 - $500 A hypothesis should be testable

4 - $100 A scientist who wants to study the affects of fertilizer on plants sets up an experiment. Plant A gets no fertilizer, Plant B gets 5 mg. of fertilizer each day, and Plant C gets 10mg. fertilizer each day. Which plant is the control group Plant A

4 - $200 An experiment that tests only one factor at a time by using a comparison of a control group and an experimental group is? A controlled experiment

4 - $300 In an experiment, the one variable that is changed is called the experimental variable

4 - $400 In an experiment, the factor that we measure (the one responding to our independent variable) is called the Dependent Variable

4 - $500 To make an experiment more reliable you should have small or large number of trials? large

5 - $100 A scientist hypothesizes the temperature of the soil in which yellow rose bushes are planted in will determine the height of the plant. The independent variable is Temperature of soil

5 - $200 A scientist hypothesizes the temperature of the soil in which yellow rose bushes are planted in will determine the height of the plant. The dependent variable Is Height of plants

5 - $300 A scientist conducted an experiment to determine how the amount of salt in a body of water affects the number of plants that can live in the water. In this experiment the independent variable is Amount of salt

5 - $400 A scientist conducted an experiment to determine how the amount of salt in a body of water affects the number of plants that can live in the water. In this experiment the dependent variable is Number of plants

5 - $500 In the penny lab the independent variable is Type of water

Final Jeopardy Type answer to appear with a 1995