Scientific Investigation

Question 0

What is a variable?

Answer 0

A variable is a factor that can alter or effect the outcome of an experiment

Question 1

What is fair testing?

Answer 1

Fair testing is where the experimenter or participants have not influenced the results and haven’t caused them to be unreliable

Question 2

What is an independent variable?

Answer 2

A variable that is purposely changed in an experiment (graphed on the x-axis)

Question 3

What is a dependant variable?

Answer 3

A variable that changes in response to changes in the independent variable (graphed on the y-axis)

Question 4

What is subjective data?

Answer 4

Data that is based on opinion

Question 5

What is objective data?

Answer 5

Data that is based on measurement

Question 6

What are the four main steps in a scientific investigation?

Answer 6

Planning
Doing
Processing
Evaluating

Question 7

Explain planning in PDPE

Answer 7

“Method of attack” get materials

Question 8

Explain doing in PDPE

Answer 8

Conduct experiment

Question 9

Explain processing in PDPE

Answer 9

Looking for patterns/trends

Question 10

Explain evaluating in PDPE

Answer 10

Look for improvements or inaccuracies