Basic Jeopardy Scientific Investigation

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Using one or more senses(sight, hear, touch, smell, taste)

to gather information.

What is an observation?


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An investigation that tests ahypothesis under controlled

conditions; contains two groups

control and experimental.

What is an experiment?


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Hungarian doctor; predicted that

hand washing woulddecrease maternity deaths.

Who was Semmelweis?


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The facts, figures, and other

evidence gathered throughperforming the experiment.

What are data?


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A logical explanation or

interpretation of an observation.

What is an inference?


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The ONE difference between the

control group and experimental

group; affects the outcome

of the experiment.

What is a variable?


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Accepted the theory of

Spontaneous Generation;

believed eels formed from

ocean ooze.

Who was Aristotle?


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An organized way to collect

and record observations.

What is a data table?


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Includes physical characteristics,

such as color or texture.

What is a qualitative observation?


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The best resource for scientists

to share ideas and experimentalfindings with others.

What is a scientific journal?


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Questioned spontaneous

generation; concluded that

decaying meat did notproduce flies.

Who was Francesco Redi?


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Can either be accepted or rejected

at the end of anexperiment based on data.

What is a hypothesis?


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A forecast of what will happen

in the future based on pastexperience or evidence.

What is a prediction?


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A hypothesis that has been

rested with a significantamount of data.

What is a theory?


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Accepted spontaneous generation;

concluded that mice were formed

from sweaty shirts and

grains of wheat.

Who was Jean Baptist van Helmont?


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The way scientists can try to

verify the results of an experiment.

What is repeating the experiment?


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A possible explanation for a set of

observations or an answer to

a scientific question; must be

TESTABLE.

What is a hypothesis?


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A theory that has been tested

by and is consistent withgenerations of data.

What is a scientific law?


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Designed a controlled experiment

that finally rejected theTheory of Spontaneous Generation.

Who was Louis Pasteur?


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Where scientists describe their

experiments in full detail so thatother scientists can repeat them.

What are scientific journals?

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