Nature of Science/Scientific Method Review

Look at the picture. How would you describe the statement: "The animal has 4 legs and a tail."

The more variables that are changed in an experiment, the more reliable the results.

Any study done carefully and based on observation is automatically scientific.

A testable prediction.

A statement or piece of information that is accepted to be true because it is based on observations.

This is the variable that the scientist measures.

This is the group in an experiment that receives the treatment.

The kind of knowledge that can be sensed directly. It is based on observations of the natural world.

Different scientists may get diffferent solutions to the same problem.

What is the independent variable in the scenario?

Science can prove anything, solve any problem, or answer any question.

Look at the picture. How would you describe the statement: "The animal must be jumping because it has no wings to fly"

A well-tested, highly probable explanation for a large set of observations.

What is the control group in the scenario?

What is always the first step of using the scientific method?

Science is concerned with understanding how nature and the physical world work.

What is the dependent variable in the scenario?

This must be made using the 5 senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch)

Science produces absolute facts that can never be changed.

Choose the quantitative data:

This is the variable that the scientist changes.

A scientific theory is just a hunch or idea.

Choose the better hypothesis:

A CONCLUSION drawn from facts and prior knowledge.

Look at the picture. How would you describe the statement: "Animals that can fly usually have wings"