Sectional knowledge
Useful terminology
Good to know
Fundamentals
Mixed bag
100
Number of passages on the ACT Science section.
What is 7?
100
Visual representation of data.
What is a graph?
100
Sequence in which it is recommended to do questions on the ACT based on the difficulty level.
What is easy, medium, hard?
100
A statement or fact taken for granted, on which experiments or theories are based.
What is an assumption?
100
A way of organizing data into rows and columns.
What is a Table?
200
Amount of time allocated for the Science section on the ACT.
What is 35 minutes?
200
These passages require you to analyze and evaluate data in tables and graphs and have 5 questions each.
What are Data Representation passages?
200
This is what changes as a result of changes in the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
200
This is any variable that doesn't change throughout an experiment.
What is a Control?
200
A visual representation of data points based on two variables.
What is a Scatterplot?
300
The number of questions on the ACT Science section.
What is 40?
300
A factor that an experiment is testing.
What is a variable?
300
Comparison questions usually occur on these types of passages.
What are Conflicting Viewpoints passages?
300
If a student wants to test the effect of sunlight on plant growth, then this is the independent variable.
What is Sunlight?
300
Representation of values of two variables (independent and dependent) using bars of proportional lengths.
What is a Bar Graph?
400
These are the topics covered on the Science Test.
What are biology, chemistry, physics and earth/space science?
400
These two types of passages require you to analyze and evaluate the design, data and conclusion of an experiment for one hypothesis or for multiple theories on a debated scientific idea.
What are Research Summary and Conflicting Viewpoints passages?
400
To turn a table into a graph, find the relationship between the variables and look for these.
What are critical points or points where the data trend changes?
400
A scatterplot with all points connected.
What is a Line Graph?
400
Relationship trends in data in which variables can either increase and decrease together or one variable increases while the other decreases and vice versa.
What are direct and inverse relationships?
500
These are the three types of Science passages on the ACT test.
What are Data Representation, Research Summaries and Conflicting Viewpoints?
500
The system a scientist uses to test a theory or a hypothesis through experimentation, and data collection and analysis.
What is the Scientific Method?
500
Extrapolation.
What is "adding data points that fall before or after the given data"?
500
This refers to filling in new data points between given data points.
What is interpolation?
500
To explain the chain of causation that brings about certain events (realized by creating and testing theories).
What is the goal of science?
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