1. Jeopardy Final Jeopardy Graphing Gathering Data Hypothesis Experiments
Can you
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Final Jeopardy

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

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Pie Graph

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What variable goes on the X axis?
Independent Variable

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What variable goes on the y axis?
Dependent variable

6. 1 - $500 What are four types of information needed on a graph?
Title, label, scale and key

7. 2 - $100 When we gather information using our senses we making what?
Observations

8. 2 - $200 When we take information and decide what is happening
inference

9. 2 - $300 I see three fire trucks go by and smoke in the distance
observation

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I decide there must be a house on fire
Inference

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Scientific method always begins with a
Question

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. In science, an educated guess is called a/an
hypothesis

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When a scientist finds that the hypothesis is not supported by the experiment he
Makes a new hypothesis

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When you decide whether or not the data supports the original hypothesis, you are
Drawing conclusions

15. 3 - $400 A hypothesis is the _________ step of the Scientific Method?
3rd

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A hypothesis should be
testable

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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

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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

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In an experiment, the one variable that is changed is called the
experimental variable

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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In the penny lab the independent variable is
Type of water

27. Final Jeopardy
Type answer to appear with a
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