Ms. Mueller's Class Site: Fall 2014



GPS Study GuideUnit 1 TestTopic 1: Scientific MethodWhat are the steps of the scientific method? Be able to list all the steps! Remember: Pigs In Hawaii Eat Raw Corn!What 3 words always need to be in a hypothesis?What is an independent variable?What is a dependent variable?What is a control?Why are controls important?Be able to write a step-by-step procedure to test a hypothesis.Given a scenario, you need to identify all of the variables, constants, and write a hypothesis. EXAMPLE PROBLEM: Penny has been having issues and has been throwing up a lot of hairballs lately. Ms. Mueller wants to see if a new hairball formula cat food will help prevent Penny from throwing up hairballs. She decides to investigate by buying normal food and Purina Hairball Formula food.What should her hypothesis be?What is the independent variable?What is the dependent variable?What constants should she have?Write a procedure to test this ic 2: GraphingWhat are the components of a perfect graph?What type of data are bar graphs good for? Line? Pie charts?Given a graph, what is the relationship between the data?Given a graph, can you make a prediction?EXAMPLE PROBLEM:TimeWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Number of hairballs105321Graph this data:Create a graph of this data.What type of graph should you use?What should you label your X- and Y-axes? What units should you use?What can you say about the relationship between time and number of hairballs?How many hairballs would you predict Penny would throw up on week 7? ................
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