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Scientific Method Test
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What is a dependent variable?
What stays the same in an experiment
What you can change in an experiment
A prediction about an experiment
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What is a procedure?
Safety rules
Step by step instructions
What stays the same in the experiment
3
What is a qualitative observation?
Describing qualities and characteristics (words)
Numbers and a label
What is kept the same in an experiment
4
What is a constant?
What stays the same in the experiment
A guess made using observations
What is changed in an experiment
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Alexis wants to know if she will would get better grades listening to different music. What is the
dependent
variable?
The type of the music
The volume of the music
Students grades on homework
6
Which is the example of a
quantitative
observation?
It is going to rain later today
The temperature is 67 degrees Fahrenheit
The clouds are dark gray
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Alexis wants to know if she will would get better grades listening to different music. What is the
independent
variable?
Students grades on homework
The type of the music
The volume of the music
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It is possible to be very
precise
but not very
accuarte
. They are
not
dependent
of each other!
False
True
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I feel ready for my test tomorrow because I followed along with the Quiz and now I know all the answers to my test!
False
True
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What does a good scientific question need to have?
All of the above are needed in a good scientific question
It needs to have a independent variable
It needs to have a dependent variable
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How can you research a science topic?
Make observations
Read books
All of the above and many more
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Identify a constant in their experiment: “Do plants grow faster in the shade?”
Amount of shade
The amount of water each plant gets
How fast the plants grow
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What is a quantitative observation?
Describing qualities and characteristics (words)
What is kept the same in an experiment
Numbers and a label
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What is the main reason scientists have constants?
So scientists know their results came only from the independent variable
So scientists stay safe
So scientists can record data easier
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Which is the example of a
qualitative
observation?
The clouds are dark gray
It is going to rain later today
The temperature is 67 degrees Fahrenheit
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What answer
best
describes the purpose of the scientific method?
To become a scientist
To solve problems and create experiments
To research new information
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What is the main reason scientists conduct research?
learn more information about their topic before they conduct an experiment
So they don’t have to do experiment
Because they are lazy
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Which is the example of an inference (prediction)?
The temperature is 67 degrees Fahrenheit
The clouds are dark gray
It is going to rain later today
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What is a hypothesis?
An observation
An educated guess
Something that you know
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What is an independent variable?
What stays the same in an experiment
A prediction about an experiment
What is measured in an experiment
