What is an hypothesis?

What you expect the results to be

What does a discussion section involve

Discussing the importance of and explaining results

Why is a risk assessment important?

To identify and manage potential issues

How do you ensure that your experiment is valid?

Make sure your experiment is a fair test

What does a conclusion involve?

A summary of the outcome of the experiment

What is the aim of an experiment?

The point/idea of the experiment

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Scientific Method

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1
What is an hypothesis?
a random guess of the results
An educated guess
What you expect the results to be
The results
2
What does a discussion section involve
explaining results
discussing science
Discussing the importance of and explaining results
stating the results
3
Why is a risk assessment important?
to decide whether or not to do the experiment
To identify and manage potential issues
it's not
to keep you safe
4
How do you make an experiment reliable?
it's reliable if you do it once
If you get the results you were hoping for
Control all your variables
Repeat it multiple times
5
How do you ensure that your experiment is valid?
Make sure your experiment is a fair test
Repeat your experiment
have multiple independent variables
it doesn't matter if it's valid
6
What are the controlled variables?
The things you keep the same
The thing you do nothing to
The thing you measure
The thing you change
7
What is an independent variable?
The thing you do nothing to
The thing you change
The thing you measure
The things you keep the same
8
What does a conclusion involve?
Restates the results
Concluding the experiment
A summary of the outcome of the experiment
A summary of the discussion
9
Why should a method be very specific
So other scientists can replicate your experiment
All of the above
so you can replicate your results
So you know what steps to follow
10
Scientist tests if alligators are male/female based on temp of eggs.The independent variable is
the male alligators
Gender of the alligator
The temperature
the incubator
11
What is the first section of a scientific report?
Method
Aim
Title
Hypothesis
12
What is a dependent variable?
The things you keep the same
The thing you do nothing do
The thing you measure
The thing you change
13
The best way to display results is:
Pictures/observations
All of the above
Table
Graph
14
Method and Procedure are the same thing
False
True
15
What is the aim of an experiment?
The steps of the experiment
the results of the experiment
What you expect the results to be
The point/idea of the experiment

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