UNIT 2. Conducting Experiment Flashcards
Order of a scientific experiment:
1) Observe
2) Construct
3) Plan
4) Predict
5) Conduct
6) Record
7) Repeat
What is procedure?
A step-by-step list of how to carry out the experiment.
What is control?
A trial during which all of the variables are unchanged. A control is used as the standard comparison for an experiment.
Constants are…
Factors that are not changed in an experiment, they don’t affect the outcome of the experiment.
A variable is…
a factor that can alter your experiment’s results.
Two different types of variables:
1) Independent
2) Dependent
An independent variable…
is the variable that you can change in an experiment.
A dependent variable…
is the variable that is influenced by the independent variable, the results of your experiment.
When collecting data, measurements must be…
ACCURATE and PRECISE
How close your measurement is to a standard of known value is …
accuracy
How close two to more measured values are to one another is…
precision
Three different types of graphs:
1) Line graph
2) Bar graph
3) Circle graph
