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100
For a science project a student records how many vehicles drive past her house between the hours of 6:00 PM and 9:00 PM. On the first 5 days of study, she counted 9, 11, 4, 16, and 9 vehicles. What type of observation do these data represent?
Quantitative Observations
100
What would you measure using a graduated cylinder?
Volume
100
How many different crickets were tested in this experiment?
5
100
Which activity is least popular for the boys?
Crafts
200
Explaining things you observe based on background knowledge is called ____________.
Inferring
200
Which sentence best represents a hypothesis?
Ms. Kramer is smart, so she can eat plenty of steak.
If Ms. Kramer is smart, then she can read 3 books in a week.
Ms. Kramer is smart, so she can take the books and throw them away.
If Ms. Kramer is smart, then she can live without water.
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200
What happens to the number of chirps as the temperature increases?
The number of chirps increase
200
How many people (total) participated in canoeing?
35
300
Guessing what will happen next based on your observations is call ____________.
Predicting
300
A scientist hypothesizes the height at which a flower is planted will determine how many petals the flower will have. The independent (manipulated) variable is ____________________
The height at which the flower is planted
300
What is the independent variable in the experiment?
The temperature
300
Which activity had the same number of male and female participants?
Swimming
400
Observations that deal with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers are called ____________.
Qualitative observations
400
A scientist hypothesizes the height at which a flower is planted will determine how many petals the flower will have. The dependent (responding) variable is ____________________
The number of petals the flower has.
400
What is the dependent variable in the experiment?
The number of chirps
400
How many more girls than boys participated in tennis?
5
500
What would you measure using a triple beam balance?
Mass
500
A scientist hypothesizes the height at which a flower is planted will determine how many petals the flower will have. The controlled (constant) variable is ____________________
Location
Type of flower
Time of year
500
What is one controlled/ constant variable in the experiment?
The time of day
The location
Unit in which temperature is measured
Type of cricket
500
How many girls participated in camp activities?
90