Decoding
Which k is NOT silent?
Kite
Knife
Knight
Kite
Round .436 to the nearest 10 th
.44
Which is a hypothesis?
*Giving a pizza party will make Manny more popular.
*Carlos set up 10 tables today.
*Emily likes to read.
Giving a pizza party will make Manny more popular.
(It makes a prediction we can test.)
involve
Include as part of
“They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or
mysterious.” (p. 1)
What is this fraction in lowest terms?
4/8
1/2
Which word is a noun?
Zombies are real.
Zombies
Put these in order from smallest to largest:
¼ .01 2/3 .82
.01, ¼, 2/3, .82
Put these steps in order:
Collect data
Analyze data
Design a study
Develop a hypothesis
Report findings
Develop a hypothesis
Design a study
Collect data
Analyze data
Report findings
enraged
very angry
“Mr. Dursley was enraged to see that a couple of them weren’t young at all; why that
man had to be older than he was, and wearing an emerald-green cloak!” (p.3)
Which scientist is most likely to see how far we can throw your little brother with a
trebuchet?
Botanist
Ornithologist
Physicist
physicist
Which letter makes a “ch” sound in these words?
Nurture
Feature
Picture
T
If Dr. Anez conducts 25 studies with 42 participants each, how many people
participants total participated in his research?
1,050
What is a comparison or control group?
A research group that does not get the intervention being tested
peculiar
Strange, odd, unusual
“It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar- a
cat reading a map.” (p. 2
Seize
take away quickly or by force; stop working
“He dashed back across the road, hurried up to his office, snapped at his secretary not
to disturb him, seized his telephone, and had almost finished dialing his home number
when he changed his mind.” (p.4)
Which word means “to get”?
Receive
Reprieve
Revive
Receive
Which one is equal to 1/5?
.15
.20
.50
.20
What is a placebo?
A fake intervention used to control for participants’ expectations
clutch
Hold tightly
“It was on his way back to them, clutching a large doughnut in a bag, that he caught a
few words of that they were saying.” (p.4)
Which word means “not working right”?
Dysfunction
Dyslexia
Dyspepsia
dysfunction