Quiz #2 Review

Answer the questions below to review for the quiz on Friday (December 6, 2013).  If you can answer the questions in your own words (without copying a definition), you are probably in great shape.  Feel free to use your notes, neighbors, and past blog posts to help you prepare.  Focus on the following blog posts to help you review: Parts of a Controlled Experiment, Scientific Questions = Testable Questions, What is a Hypothesis?, Writing a Hypothesis, Types of Scientific Investigations.

Controlled Experiments
1.       What is a controlled experiment?
2.       What is an independent variable?
3.       Why is there only one independent variable in every controlled experiment?
4.       What is a dependent variable?
5.       What are constants?
6.       Do all experiments have control groups?  Explain.

Testable Question
1.       What is a testable question?
2.       What must be in every testable question?
3.       Write 2 testable question formats.

Hypothesis
1.       What is a hypothesis?
2.       What is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory?
3.       Write the format for writing a hypothesis.

Experimental Procedures
1.       Why is it important to be specific when writing your experimental procedures?
2.       Should any scientist be able to repeat an experimental procedure and get the same results?  Explain.
3.       How is sketching/drawing out the steps in your experimental procedure helpful?  Explain.

Types of Scientific Investigations
1.       What is a field investigation?
2.       What is a secondary research investigation?
3.       What is a design investigation?
4.       What type of investigation are we designing in science class?