Verification Test

Question 1

What is data

Answer 1

Data is a term meaning all measurements or observations to describe something

Question 2

What are the two types of data

Answer 2

Quantitative ative and Qualitative data

Question 3

What is Quantitative data

Answer 3

It’s measurements that are written as numbers with units attached

Question 4

What is qualitative data

Answer 4

It’s is data that can only be described in words

Question 5

What is primary data

Answer 5

Primary data is that you or your team finds out by running your own experiments

Question 6

What is secondary data

Answer 6

Secondary data is data which is the work of others people

Question 7

What are mistakes

Answer 7

Are things that can be avoided if we take more care

Question 8

How can mistakes occur

Answer 8

When u spill a material, read the method incorrectly, use the wrong equipment,

Question 9

What are errors

Answer 9

Are not mistakes, they are small and unavoidable changes that occur naturally in measurements.

Question 10

How do errors occur

Answer 10

They will happen no matter how careful you are

Question 11

Typesof errors

Answer 11

Parallax error, reading errors, instrument errors and human reflex, zero errors

Question 12

Parallax error

Answer 12

Your eye can’t be over the measurement you have to be directly parallel tot he measure the to read correctly

Question 13

Reading error

Answer 13

U might have to estimate a measurement if it has no exact markings

Question 14

Instrument errors

Answer 14

Maybe a piece of equipment is faulty and won’t give the right reading

Question 15

Human reflex

Answer 15

Stopwatch is more accurate than use so no one will have the same reading and may differ in people

Question 16

Zero error

Answer 16

When the instrument doesn’t start on zero so everything will be a little bit out

Question 17

How to improve primary data

Answer 17

Repeat measurements,

Question 18

How can u improve secondary data

Answer 18

Checking how old it’s it
Where did it come from
What is the URL
Compare to other data u have found

Question 19

Bibliography order

Answer 19

Author
Title
Year or date of publication
Place

Question 20

Practical report features

Answer 20

Heading
Purpose
Hypothesis
Material
Procedure 
Results

Question 21

Heading

Answer 21

List name and date of the investigation and your partners

Question 22

Purpose

Answer 22

You describe briefly what you were trying to do

Question 23

Hypothesis

Answer 23

An educated guess about what might happen in the investigation and what Igor be found out, give some scientific knowledge why you think that

Question 24

Materials

Answer 24

Everything you will use in the investigation

Question 25

Procedure

Answer 25

Description of everything you did in the investigation

Question 26

Results

Answer 26

List and measure meant of the investigation, all in a graph

Question 27

Types of graphs

Answer 27

Pie, bar, line

Question 28

What are variables

Answer 28

Factors that might have some influence on an experiment

Question 29

Independent variable

Answer 29

The one thing in the experiment you are going to change

Question 30

Dependent variable

Answer 30

What you are trying to test and about to measure is known as the dependent variable

Question 31

Controlled variables

Answer 31

The other variables need to be changed to make the experiment a fair test