6th grade review of Scientific Method

What would be a good control for Bill's coffee and plant experiment?

Which step of the scientific method do you determine if your hypothesis was supported or not supported?

What do you call the factors you keep the same in an experiment?

In which step do you report on the data you collected in your experiment?

A prediction about the outcome of the experiment is called

A process that is used to find answers to questions about the world around us?

The variable that changes as a result of the experimenter's change. The one you measure.

What type of observation is this? "The giraffe's neck is 1.8 meters long."

Bill puts different amounts of coffee on plants and measures their growth every week. What is the dependent variable?

What type of observations are these? "Green, scaly skin"

The part of the experiment that is used for comparison (the "normal" condition).

Beth decides to have a group of bananas that are not near any apples in her experiment. This is the

A hypothesis is a(n) _____________ guess based on _______________ and your knowledge.

Why should an experiment be repeated?

In Bill's experiment he uses the same soil, type of plant & coffee, same amount of light & water. These are the

Beth predicts: If bananas are kept near apples, then the apples will go bad faster." What is this statement called?

The part of the experiment that is changed on purpose.

In what part of the scientific method are the results explained and the scientist supports or rejects their hypothesis?

In Beth's experiment about whether apples make bananas go bad faster, what would the dependent variable be?

To run an experiment about how sleep affects student test scores, what would you vary for each group of people?