Jeopardy Scientific Method & Inquiry
Scientific Method Life Science Variables Process Skills Metric System (SI) FINAL JEOPARDY
The 1 st step of the Scientific Method Answer
What is State the problem? Back
The 3 rd step of the Scientific Method Answer
What is develop a hypothesis? Back
The fourth step of the Scientific Method Answer
What is create a controlled experiment? Back
The 5 th step of the Scientific Method Answer
What is record and analyze data? Back
The branch of life science that studies animals Answer
What is Zoology? Back
The branch of life science that studies plants Answer
What is Botany? Back
The branch of life science that studies microorganisms Answer
What is Microbiology? Back
The branch of life science that studies relationships between living things and their environment Answer
What is Ecology? Back
Written as an “if/then” statement, tells what the scientist expects to happen Answer
What is a hypothesis? Back
The part of the experiment that the scientist changes Answer
What is the manipulated variable? Back
DAILY DOUBLE! The part of the experiment that changes in response to what the scientist did Answer
What is the responding variable? Back
The group that is not affected by the manipulated variable. Answer
What is the control group? Back
There are 3 people. Answer
What is an observation? Back
The water in the pot will boil over and make a mess. Answer
What is a prediction? Back
They are cooking. Answer
What is an inference? Back
Name three ways you could classify these objects. Answer
Answers vary Ex. Candy type IngredientsColor Back
Tool, Measure, and Units Answer
Thermometer, Temperature, Degrees Celcius Back
Tool, Measure, and Units Answer
Graduated cylinder, volume, mL? Back
Tool, Measure, and Units Answer
Meter Stick, Distance (length), meters, cm, mm Back
Tool, Measure, and Units Answer
Triple Beam Balance, Mass, grams Back
Mass = 40g Volume = 10mL Answer
Density = 4 Back
Mass = 63g Volume = 7mL Answer
Density = 9 Back
Mass = 7200g Volume = 90 mL Answer
Density = 80 Back
The density of water. Answer
What is 1? Back
The 6 th and 7 th steps of the Scientific Method Answer
What is make a conclusion and repeat the process? Back
A theory that has survived repeated testing. Answer
What is a law? Back
A corn farmer in PA wants to grow the corn stalks taller. He finds a new soil fertilizer fit for the job. Write an acceptable hypothesis for his experiment. Answer
If the corn farmer fertilizes the soil, then the corn stalks will grow taller. Back
Make an observation, inference & prediction from the picture below. Answer
Answers vary. Teacher check. Back
DAILY DOUBLE! What might a scientist be attempting to find if he or she is finding mass and volume of a sample? Answer
What is density? Back
To calculate density given the object find mass using a __________ and find volume using _________________. Answer
What is a triple beam balance & displacement. Back
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FINAL JEOPARDY FINAL JEOPARDYCategory: Experimental Set-Up Scores
In the egg drop competition, a student wants to create the best crate and win. She buys two kind of a straws, super strong & regular. In order to test which straws are better, she creates two crates one with super strong straws and a parachute and the other with regular straws and no parachute. She drops both from two meters and continues to raise the height 1 meter at a time until one of the eggs breaks. What is wrong with her experiment? Answer
There are too many manipulated variables. She must have a parachute on both crates or neither crate. End
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