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Scientific Inquiry Flashcards

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What is OSHA and what does it do?

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration and it provides a safe workplace, safety training, discovers and corrects problems. It applies to private and federal sector

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What is an SDS sheet?

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It is a sheet for every chemical that issues uses, properties and warnings. It has 16 sections

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What are the sections of an SDS sheet?

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Section 1-8: General Information
Section 9-11: Technical Information
Section 12-16: Non-mandatory information

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How do you dispose of hazardous material?

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You should limit the amount of hazardous waste, know the correct disposal or have authorities dispose of it.

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What are accuracy and precision?

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Accuracy is how close you are to a true value

Precision is how close your measurements are

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How do you know if a number is significant?

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Any non zero is significant
Zeros between integers are significant
Zero after an integer with a decimal point is significant
Leading zeros are not significant

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What is a primary source of information?

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Firsthand source

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What is a secondary source of information?

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Interprets, analyzes or publishes a primary source

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What should a scientific source be like?

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Accurate, reliable and valid

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How should science be communicated?

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Transparent, organized, clear and understandable

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What is a pie graph?

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Parts of a whole or percentages

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What is a line graph?

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X vs Y. Trends change over time

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What are the steps of scientific inquiry?

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Question.
Hypothesis. 
Experiment.
Collection.
Analysis.
Conclusion.
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What is a control group?

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Group with no changes to the variable

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How many variables should you manipulate with each test?

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Just one

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What is peer-review?

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It’s a review of your data and seeing if it holds up

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What are inquiry-based activities?

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Scientific inquiry activities with little help from teacher

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How can you increase reliability in an experiment?

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By repeating it.

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What are the prefixes of the metric system?

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Milli: 1/1000
Centi: 1/100
Kilo: 1000x

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What is a preventable death?

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Death that can be prevented with technology and medical advances. Tobacco is a leading cause of preventable deaths

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What is negative feedback?

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Process where body reacts to reverse a change. Sweat to lower temperature

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What is a flow chart?

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Chart with steps to follow. Algorithm

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What is a beaker?

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Used to measure liquid

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What is a graduated cylinder

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Used to measure liquid

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What did Copernicus do?

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Heliocentricity theory

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What did Einstein do?

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Theory of Relativity

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What did Newton do?

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Law of Gravity, laws of motion.

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What did Galileo do?

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Validation of heliocentricity. All objects fall at the same rate. Discovered Jupiter’s moons

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What is a theory?

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Explanation backed up by research. Proven

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What is a multisensory learning environment?

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Use five senses to learn. Beneficial to all

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What is evidence based instruction?

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Using proven methods for learning. Gathered from multiple experiments.

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What is a formative assessment?

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Used to know when and how to adjust instruction.

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What is a formal assessment?

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Used to see how much a student has learned. Standardized tests

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What is an informal assessment?

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Used to see if a student is learning. Portfolio, projects.

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What is explicit teaching?

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Teacher guided learning and discussions

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What is didactic questioning?

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Asking who, what, when, where and why

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What is the mean, median and mode and what are they good for?

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Mean: Average of data
Median: Middle value
Mode: Most common value

They are used to summarize data

38
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What is range?

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Difference between largest and smallest values

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What is variance?

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Distribution of data

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What is standard deviation?

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Measures variability of data, describes amount of confidence.

41
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What is the carrying capacity?

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Max number of organisms that can survive

42
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What is overpopulation?

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Too many organisms and inadequate resources to sustain

43
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What is migration?

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Physical moving from one area to another

44
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What is emigration?

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Leaving the birthplace for another country

45
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What is Gemeinschaft?

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Intimate community. Together

46
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What is Gesellschaft?

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Society. Individualism

47
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What is gentrification?

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Displacement of lower income residents by higher income ones

48
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What is the formula for Population Growth Rate?

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PGR= (Births-Deaths) + (Inmigrants-Emigrants)

49
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What is the Malthusian Theory?

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Earth will eventually reach carrying capacity.

50
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What is fertility?

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No. of children a woman bears

51
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What is fecundity?

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No. of children a woman can bear

52
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What is the crude birth rate

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No. of births for every 1000 people

53
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What are biotic resources?

54
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What is anemometer

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Measures wind speed

55
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What is a psychrometer

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Measures humidity

56
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What is a closed system?

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Nothing enters or leaves

57
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What is the 5E Model of Instruction?

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Engage, explore, explain, elaborate and evaluate

58
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How should you prepare slides?

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A drop of water is added and a cover is placed on top, place the cover slip at 45º angle to avoid air bubbles

59
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What is chromatography?

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A technique used to separate and analyze mixtures.

The mixture is dissolved in its mobile phase and the desired component is separated in the stationary phase.

60
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What is centrifugation?

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Process to separate a heterogeneous mixture by spinning

61
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What is spectrophotometry?

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Measuring the amount of light absorbed by a colored solution

62
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What is electrophoresis?

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Method to separate molecules by the use of an electrical charge

63
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What is calorimetry?

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Used to determine the heat released or absorbed by a reaction

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What is titration?

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Determine the specific endpoint of a reaction

65
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What is the greenhouse effect?

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Greenhouse gases trap infrared radiation, this is beneficial. The problem happens when human activity generates more gases than necessary, this causes more infrared radiation and a spike in temperature.

66
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What did Anton van Leewenhoek do?

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He observed single-celled organisms for the first time

67
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What did Linnaeus do?

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Developed a method for classifying plants and animals

68
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What did Barbara McClintock do?

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Developed the first genetic map for maize

69
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Who was Mendel?

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Father of genetics

70
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Watson and Crick

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Double helix of DNA

71
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Bloom’s Taxonomy

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In order from lowest level of cognition to highest

Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
72
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What is knowledge?

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Recall of information. Memorization

73
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What is comprehension?

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Appreciate the context of data. Associate, describe, discuss

74
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What is application?

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Use of information by solving new problems or proposing new queries.

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What is analysis?

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Recognition of patterns. Determine root causes, infer, troubleshooting

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What is synthesis?

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Creation of new ideas based upon previous knowledge. Build, make, create.

77
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What is evaluation?

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Reasoning and judging. Decide, select, defend.

78
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Piaget’s stages of development

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Preoperational
Concrete
Formal

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Preoperational stage

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2-7 years. They need to see how things work to understand them. Difficult to think outside the box. Hands-on activities

80
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Concrete stage

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First grade to tweens. Begin to think abstractly, they consider and empathise. Cooperative learning and teams

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Formal stage

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12+ years. they understand through abstract thinking.

82
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What is a law?

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Explanation of events with the same outcome

83
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What is a random error?

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Not consistent across the data set, it does not affect the average, considered to be noise

84
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What is a systematic error?

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Will show up consistently and may be the result of a flaw in design, known as bias.

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