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Scientific Method
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How do experiments help scientist learn.
It helps them learn only if they make new discoveries.
It only helps if they get thier hypothesis right.
It helps them become famous
It helps them answer questions about the world
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A variable can be controlled when:
When you make constant chages to the groups.
When all your test groups are the same.
You compare a normal group to a group you are testing on.
When none of your test groups are the same.
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A controled experiment...
Ussually only includes one trial
only tests one variable
tests multiple variables
does not add any variables to the tests
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Which goes first in a scientific experiment?
conclusion
data, tables and charts
question or problem
hypothesis
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When we gather information using the 5 senses this is called....
stating a hypothesis
making observations
forming conclusions
performing experiments
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What is the difference between the people who like cats and goldfish?
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Which would you do first in a scientific investigation?
form a queston or probem
draw conclusions
write a hypothesis
organize data
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Only scientists
record data
perform experiments
make observations
research
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Scientific evidence is:
supported by popular votes
how people feel about things
what people like
data that supports your findings
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Which of the follwoing is always an impaortant part of an experiment?
making drawings of things observed
making a working model
observing things in nature
identifying and cotrolling variables
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When we gather information with our senses - taste, touch, smell, see, hear - it is called.
stating hypotheses
making observations
forming conclusions
performing experiments
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Interpretting data: In the graph below what is the 2nd most popular sport in the school
soccer
other
basketball
softball
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A control group is used
to compare a variable to
for multiple trials
as a conclusion
as data
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Scientists share thier findings to....
compete with each other
kep their work secret
learn from each other
so they don't have to repeat it
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When you write down or record what is happening in your experiment it is called
a hypothesis
an observatoin
an experiment
a conclusion
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What would happen if scientist didn't publish thier findings in journals?
Other scientists would not benefit from thier work.
They could get too famous
People could steal thier work
They would never be famous
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The first step in the scientific method a scientist usually takes is to
create a testable question
create a conclusion
create a hypothesis
gather evidence