State Test Labs

Cool Classification

100

Did the animal we looked at under the microscope belong in Box 1 (fewer than 4 legs) or Box 2 (not fewer than 4 legs)?

What is Box 1?

200

All questions you use to divide animals must be able to be answered with...

What is a Yes/No question?

300

This is something you are NOT allowed to use to divide up the animals (Up to 3 possible answers)

What is COLOR or SIZE or BEHAVIOR?

400

Write a question to divide up an ant, butterfly, and spider

Does the animal have wings, does the animal have 6 legs, NOT can it fly

500

Write a question to divide up a cat, dog, and squirrel

Answers vary but must divide into 2 and 1

MicroNope

100

This is the color of the only lens that you should actually use on the state test

What is red?

200

If an object is very out of focus, what should I do?

What is bring DOWN the focus lens pretty close to the slide with the large focus knobs

300

The geometric measurement that is equal to the field of view distance

What is diameter of a circle?

400

What is the size of this creature that the host draws on a piece of paper, if the field of view is 3.0 mm?

What is ____ mm? (host decides who is close)

500

When writing field of view or the size of a creature, you should round to the nearest...

What is half or 0.5 millimeter?

You're so Dense

100

An object with a density of 1.4 would...

What is sink?

200

What is the #1 way that students mess up the triple beam balance reading

Make sure the weights are in the notches!!!

300

This is the formula for volume of a rectangular prism?

What is length times width times height?

400

These are the units for density

What are g/cm3 or grams per cubic centimeter

500

An object with a density of 0.65 would have what % of its structure above water?

What is 35%

Dot my Plot

100

When getting data you should round to the nearest...

What is tenth or one decimal place or 0.1

200

The host will draw 4 dots. Who can draw the BEST line of best fit for these dots?

The host judges who drew the best line of best fit and gives them points! 

300

How can I use the line of best fit to make predictions?

Start on either the x or y according to the information you are given. If you start on the X axis, go up until you hit the line and then go left until you hit the y axis. If you start on the Y axis, go right until you hit the line, then down until you get an x value. 

400

These are the units for density which you must write

What is g/cm3?

500

This physics term increases when a moving object has more mass

What is force or momentum?