How science works

GCSE How science works summary of lessons.
Which 17th century scientist used a stopped pendulum to prove his theory about motion? . In which century was Galileo born? . How many years on average does it take a new drug to make it onto the market? . What does an experimenter try to remove from his experiment in order to make it fair?. What quality of a measurement is determined by the limits of the scale on the instrument used?. What are random, systematic and zero examples of? . If someone else carries out your experiment and gets the same results, what does this indicate?. What type of average is defined as the most common value of a set of numbers? . What kind of variable can have any numerical value? . What was the name of the first man on the moon? . What was the name of the first man into space? . What are grown on agar plates? . What word for a ‘great idea’ usually forms the start of a scientific investigation? . Who discovered penicillin?. What type of relationship between two variables produces a straight line on a graph? . If a result in a set of data seems wildly out of place, what might we consider labelling it as? . In the news article we read, what were people worried they might get cancer from living too near to?. A bar chart would be used to show the relationship between which types of data, continuous and what?. Whose ideas did Galileo challenge when he said any 2 objects would fall at the same rate?. After many years investigation tobacco smoke was found to have a causal link with which disease?.

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