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A list of things you need to complete an experiment.

What are materials?

Steps that are followed.

What is the procedure?

A formal manner in which data can be organized.

What are charts or graphs?

DAILY DOUBLE A condition or factor that is the same throughout an experiment.

DAILY DOUBLE What is the constant?

A judgment based on observations.

What is an inference?

The question you want to answer is also called the ____________.

What is the problem?

The ______________ is the body structure that takes in information from the experiment.

What is the sensory organ?

If you _______________ items, you’re putting them into groups according to their properties.

What is classify?

DAILY DOUBLE The condition that changes in an experiment so effects may be observed is called a ___________.

DAILY DOUBLE What is a variable?

If you study a problem carefully, you are ________________.

What is investigating?

What is a hypothesis?

A hypothesis is the best possible educated guess in an experiment.

What does it mean to record during an experiment?

To record is when you write down your observations.

What is data?

Data is the information you gather during an experiment. It includes calculations and observations.

DAILY DOUBLE What is the conclusion of an experiment?

DAILY DOUBLE A conclusion is where we determine if the hypothesis is correct or not.

What is the scientific process?

The scientific process is an operational model all scientists use to conduct an experiment.

This is the type of measurement scientists use in most of their experiments.

What is metric measurement?

This is how we measure liquids in metric measurement.

What are liters?

DAILY DOUBLE This is how we measure weight in metric measurement.

DAILY DOUBLE What are grams?

This is how we measure length in metric measurement.

What are meters?

I would use this form of metric measurement to measure the amount of water in a pool.

What are liters?

Joey wants to create hypothesis for his science fair project. What three words must be use in his hypothesis?

He must use IF, THEN, and BECAUSE.

Jared conducts the book, ruler, marble experiment in the hallway of his house. What measuring tool does he need?

Jared needs a centimeter tape measure.

Stephanie tests two different colored pieces of cloth under the same light for a half hour each and takes their temperature. What was the variable in this experiment?

The variable in this experiment is the color cloth she used in each experiment.

Mary wanted to conduct an experiment. She thought that if she watered a tomato plant every 2 days and kept it in the sunlight, then it would grow because it had everything it needed. She used the same tomato plant kit in 2 separate pots, kept them both in the sun and watered one every 2 days and one every 4 days. She found that after 2 weeks, the plant watered every 2 days had grown a tomato, while the other one did not. What were the constants in this experiment?

The constants were the tomato plant kits and both plants were in the sun.

DAILY DOUBLE Carl was conducting his first science experiment ever and doesn’t know the five steps of the scientific method in order. You have the steps, but not the order: Collect data, Hypothesis, Question, Conclusion, Materials & Procedure Can you tell him?

DAILY DOUBLE 1.Question 2.Hypothesis 3.Procedure & Materials 4.Collect Data 5.Conclusion

How do people depend on machines to help them with their work?

Machines help people get more work done and get it done faster.

How do food workers depend on you?

When you buy food, some of your money helps pay the people who grew the food, picked it, packed it, shipped it and sold it.

What is a diagram?

A diagram is a picture that shows the important parts of something.

How is a map different than a globe?

A map is a flat picture and a globe is round.

How is harvesting bananas different from harvesting peanuts?

Bananas are harvested by hand before they ripen. Peanuts are harvested by machines when they are ripe.