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Ms. McCormick noticed that her dog was limping. SHe remembered that she had seen her dog jump off the bed. She thought that her dog may have hurt her paw when she jumped off the bed. Assuming that the paw was hurt while jumping off the bed is an example of
What is an inference
200
Brianna was going to build an electromagnet. She thought that she could make the electromagnet stronger if she wrapped more wire coils around the iron nail. This is an example of
What is a hypothesis?
200
Ms. Glaser's dog Nash was not eating his dog food. Ms. Glaser bought three different kinds of dog food and then made a chart that showed how much dog food was consumed each day. The chart that shows the amount of food eaten each day is an example of
What is an observation
300
Divine conducted an experiment where he watered plants with varying amounts of salt added to the water. He noticed that the more salt he added the less the plants seemed to grow. The difference in the height of the plants is an example of
What is an observation?
300
Medelin noticed that the stem of the plant was bent and that the flower was almost touching the ground. She thought that the plant was dying in the hot sun. That the plant was dying in the hot sun is an example of an
What is an inference?
400
The 3rd graders did an experiment to see which soil components could absorb the most amount of water. Some of the students predicted that the larger components would absorb the more soil than the smaller components. This is an example of
What is a hypothesis?
400
Isaac saw a string of Christmas tree lights. Three of the bulbs in the string were not lit but the rest of the bulbs were. Isaac assumed that the Christmas tree lights were probably in a parallel circuit. This is an example of
What is an inference.
500
Ryan wanted to see how the length of a catapults arm affected the distance an object could be thrown. He made a catapult with three different sized arms. He launched a ball and then he used a meter stick to measure how far each one traveled. The distance each ball traveled is the
What is dependent variable.
500
Lilly wanted to find out where mold would grow the fastest. She put one piece of bread near a warm window, one in a refrigerator, and one in the freezer. Then she observed the bread for mold spores over a month. The different spots where she placed the bread is the ..
What is independent variable