Science and engineering

Question 1

Scientific method

Answer 1

The way scientists study and learn about the world

Question 2

Observation

Answer 2

Using your five senses to gather information about something

Question 3

Qualitative Observation

Answer 3

Using your senses to describe the characteristics of an object-color, texture, taste.

Examples:

• smooth texture
• Brightly colored
• bad smell

Question 4

Quantitative Observation

Answer 4

Using numbers or measurements to describe something

Examples:

• 10 meters
• 450 milliliters
• 176 grams

Question 5

Inference

Answer 5

An explanation of an observation based on prior knowledge.

Question 6

Hypothesis

Answer 6

A prediction based on prior knowledge. Always written in and if then statement.

Question 7

Variable

Answer 7

Any factor that can be manipulated, controlled for, or measured in an experiment.

Question 8

control Variable

Answer 8

what musts stay the same in the experiment

Question 9

Manipulated/Independent Variable

Answer 9

The thing that you are testing or changing in an experiment and it is graphed on a=the X-axis

Question 10

dependent/Responding Variable

Answer 10

What You are measuring or observing in an experiment and it is graphed on the Y-axis

Question 11

C.E.R : Claim

Answer 11

Is the answer to the question you are

trying to answer.

Question 12

C.E.R : Evidence

Answer 12

Scientific data that supports your claim.

Question 13

C.E.R : Reasoning

Answer 13

The how or why the evidence supports our claim; scientific rule

Question 14

Conclusion

Answer 14

A written summary of an experiment that uses evidence to prove what you learned.