What does a discussion section involve

Discussing the importance of and explaining results

What is an hypothesis?

What you expect the results to be

What is the aim of an experiment?

The point/idea of the experiment

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

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Scientific Method

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An introductory quiz to determine prior knowledge on the scientific method

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

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