Year 8 Enquiery Processes Revision Flashcards
What are the different variables?
Independent, dependent and control
What is the control variable?
The variable you keep the same
What is the independent variable?
The variable you change
What is the dependent variable?
The variable you measure
What is a hypothesis?
An educated guess or prediction
What does it mean If something is repeatable?
You can do it multiple times
What is the line of best fit?
A straight or curved line to cover as many points as possible on a graph
What is secondary data?
Another scientist with the same data as you
What is evidence?
Data to support a finding
Why is evidence important to have?
It makes any findings you make more believable
What is peer review?
Another scientist reviewing and agreeing or disagreeing whit your work
What is a scientific journal for?
For scientists to write there discoveries in
Why is it Important to know your audience?
Because if you are writing for little children and you use detailed scientific language, they won’t understand it
What is bias?
Someone being on another’s side even though they might be wrong because of bribes or belliefs
What are the 4 C’s?
Clear, concise, correct and coherent
What is a claim?
Someone stating something with or without evidence
Why do we use reasoning?
To get a point across clearly
What is a theory?
A point that someone makes that has supporting evidence
What so argumentation?
When scientists contest, reject and accept other scientist’s discoveries
When do we use models?
When explaining something is too difficult so we just use a real life model
What is a law?
Something that is widely approved and not disagreed upon
What are benefits?
Good things that you get out of Something?
What are risks?
The bad things that you get out of doing something
