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Year 8 Enquiery Processes Revision Flashcards

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What are the different variables?

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Independent, dependent and control

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What is the control variable?

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The variable you keep the same

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What is the independent variable?

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The variable you change

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What is the dependent variable?

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The variable you measure

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5
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What is a hypothesis?

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An educated guess or prediction

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What does it mean If something is repeatable?

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You can do it multiple times

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What is the line of best fit?

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A straight or curved line to cover as many points as possible on a graph

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What is secondary data?

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Another scientist with the same data as you

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What is evidence?

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Data to support a finding

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Why is evidence important to have?

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It makes any findings you make more believable

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What is peer review?

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Another scientist reviewing and agreeing or disagreeing whit your work

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What is a scientific journal for?

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For scientists to write there discoveries in

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Why is it Important to know your audience?

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Because if you are writing for little children and you use detailed scientific language, they won’t understand it

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What is bias?

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Someone being on another’s side even though they might be wrong because of bribes or belliefs

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What are the 4 C’s?

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Clear, concise, correct and coherent

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What is a claim?

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Someone stating something with or without evidence

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Why do we use reasoning?

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To get a point across clearly

18
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What is a theory?

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A point that someone makes that has supporting evidence

19
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What so argumentation?

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When scientists contest, reject and accept other scientist’s discoveries

20
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When do we use models?

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When explaining something is too difficult so we just use a real life model

21
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What is a law?

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Something that is widely approved and not disagreed upon

22
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What are benefits?

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Good things that you get out of Something?

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What are risks?

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The bad things that you get out of doing something

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