I am the step in the scientific method in which you test what you think will happen. Who am I?
A. EXPERIMENT
B. HYPOTHESIS
C. PROBLEM
D. INDEPENDENT VARIABLE
What is EXPERIMENT?
100
I am the part of the scientific method in which you ask a question about something that you want to know or find out. Who am I?
A. HYPOTHESIS
B. EXPERIMENT
C. PROBLEM
D. CONCLUSION
What is PROBLEM?
100
I am the part of the scientific method, in which the scientist DOESN'T CHANGE me, because you compare what you didn't change to what you did change. I make the experiment fair. Who am I?
A. DEPENDENT VARIABLE
B.CONTROL
C. INDEPENDENT VARIABLE
D. DATA
What is CONTROL?
100
I am a statement that DESCRIBES an object or what I notice in my surroundings. I DESCRIBE them in 1of 2 ways: by using numbers and measurement AND using 5 senses. Who am I?
A. QUALITATIVE OBSERVATION
B. QUANTITATIVE OBSERVATION
C. OBSERVATION
D. INFERENCE
What is OBSERVATION?
100
I am statement, in which you ASSUME/SUSPECT something about something you noticed/described in your surroundings. YOU DO NOT TEST ME WITH AN EXPERIMENT. Who am I?
A. HYPOTHESIS
B. PROBLEM
C. CONCLUSION
D. INFERENCE
What is INFERENCE?
200
Why is a hypothesis an educated guess, instead of a wild guess?
A. BECAUSE YOUR GUESS IS CORRECT
B. BECAUSE YOUR GUESS IS SOMETHING YOU SUSPECT
C. BECAUSE YOUR GUESS ISN'T A WILD GUESS
D. BECAUSE YOUR GUESS IS BASED ON WHAT YOU OBSERVED
What is D. BECAUSE YOUR GUESS IS BASED ON WHAT YOU OBSERVED?
200
Science is a way of problem-solving or learning how the world works. When doing science, the steps that you take to solve a problem or learn how the world works are known as:
A. EXPERIMENT
B. SCIENTIFIC METHOD
C. PROBLEM
D. CONCLUSION
What is B. SCIENTIFIC METHOD?
200
PUT THESE STEPS OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN ORDER:
DATA, OBSERVATION, HYPOTHESIS, PROBLEM, CONCLUSION, EXPERIMENT
What is OBSERVATION, PROBLEM, HYPOTHESIS, EXPERIMENT, DATA, CONCLUSION?
200
If I drink tea, then my headache will go away faster.
This statement is an example of what part of the scientific method:
A. CONCLUSION
B. EXPERIMENT
C. HYPOTHESIS
D. PROBLEM
What is C. HYPOTHESIS?
200
I want to know how much food a person eats affects how fast they run.
WHAT WOULD BE THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE IN THIS TEST?
A. HOW FAST THE PEOPLE RUN
B. HOW MUCH FOOD THEY EAT
C. THE TIME THEY START RUNNING
D. WHERE THEY START RUNNING FROM
What is B. HOW MUCH FOOD THEY EAT?
300
I want to know how much food a person eats affects how fast they run.
WHAT WOULD BE THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE IN THIS TEST?
A. HOW FAST THE PEOPLE RUN
B. HOW MUCH FOOD THEY EAT
C. THE TIME THEY START RUNNING
D. WHERE THEY START RUNNING FROM
What is A. HOW FAST THE PEOPLE RUN?
300
I want to know how scratching my mosquito bites affects the time it takes them to heal.
WHAT PART OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IS THIS STATEMENT DESCRIBING?
A. HYPOTHESIS
B. CONCLUSION
C. OBSERVATION
D. PROBLEM
What is D. PROBLEM?
300
I want to know how scratching my mosquito bites affects the time it takes them to heal.
WHAT WOULD BE THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE IN THIS TEST?
A. WHETHER YOU SCRATCH THE BITES OR NOT
B. HOW LONG IT TAKES THE BITES TO HEAL
C. THE BITES YOU DON'T SCRATCH
D. WHETHER YOU PUT ITCH CREAM ON THE BITE OR NOT
What is B. HOW LONG IT TAKES THE BITES TO HEAL?
300
I want to know how much food a person eats affects how fast they run.
WHAT WOULD BE THE CONTROLS IN THIS TEST?
A. HOW FAST THE PEOPLE RUN
B. HOW MUCH FOOD THEY EAT
C. THE TIME THEY START RUNNING
D. WHERE THEY START RUNNING FROM
E. C AND D
What is E. C AND D?
300
I want to know how scratching my mosquito bites affects the time it takes them to heal.
WHAT WOULD BE THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE IN THIS TEST?
A. WHETHER YOU SCRATCH THE BITES OR NOT
B. HOW LONG IT TAKES THE BITES TO HEAL
C. THE BITES YOU DON'T SCRATCH
D. WHETHER YOU PUT ITCH CREAM ON THE BITE OR NOT
What is A. WHETHER YOU SCRATCH THE BITE OR NOT?
400
I want to know how scratching my mosquito bites affects the time it takes them to heal.
WHAT WOULD BE THE CONTROL IN THIS TEST?
A. WHETHER YOU SCRATCH THE BITES OR NOT
B. HOW LONG IT TAKES THE BITES TO HEAL
C. THE BITES YOU DON'T SCRATCH
D. WHETHER YOU PUT ITCH CREAM ON THE BITE OR NOT
What is C. THE BITES YOU DON'T SCRATCH?
400
I want to know how drinking tea affects how fast my headaches go away.
WHAT WOULD BE THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE IS IN THIS TEST?
A. WHETHER YOU DRINK TEA OR NOT
B. HOW FAST HEADACHES GO AWAY
C. WHETHER YOU LIKE THE TASTE OF THE TEA
What is B. HOW FAST HEADACHES GO AWAY?
400
I NOTICE that when I change my uniform after PE, my classmates are more likely to sit beside me. I WANT TO TEST whether or not how bad I smell influences if my classmates will sit beside me.
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO NEXT, ACCORDING TO THE STEPS OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD?
A. RECORD YOUR DATA
B. DO AN EXPERIMENT
C. MAKE A HYPOTHESIS
D. MAKE AN OBSERVATION
What is C. MAKE A HYPOTHESIS? THE 1ST SENTENCE WAS THE OBSERVATION. THE 2ND WAS THE PROBLEM.
400
What do you compare your control to in an experiment?
A. DEPENDENT VARIABLE
B. INDEPENDENT VARIABLE
C. HYPOTHESIS
D. DATA
What is B. INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?
400
Brittany Howard is a new employee at 5-7-9 in Mall at Louisiana. The boss tells her that she has to fill up 2 boxes that are equal in size with clothes that aren't selling and ship them to the Mall at Cortana. Brittany is trying to figure out the best way to fit as many jeans as possible in the boxes. So, she tries 2 different methods. She thinks that laying the jeans flat will allow her to fit more jeans in the boxes. For box 1, she lays the jeans flat in the box. For box 2, she rolls the jeans up like a newspaper. She fits 23 pairs of jeans in box 1 and 31 jeans in box 2.
WHAT IS THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE IN THIS TEST?
A. THE WAY SHE FITS THE JEANS IN THE BOX
B. THE BOXES
C. HOW MANY JEANS SHE FITS IN THE BOXES
D. THE BRAND OF JEANS IN THE BOXES
What is A. THE WAY SHE FITS THE JEANS IN THE BOXES?
500
On a late night infomercial, a doctor is trying to sell a weight loss drug. She makes the claim with right diet and exercise, patients will lose 50% more weight than people would without the drug.
WHAT SHOULD THE CONTROLS BE?
A. AMOUNT OF FOOD THE PATIENTS EAT
B. THE AMOUNT OF EXERCISE THEY DO
C. THE AMOUNT OF WEIGHT THEY LOSE
D. THE GROUP WHO DOESN'T GET THE WEIGHT LOSS PILL
E. A,B, AND D
What is E. A, B, AND D?
500
In the morning I have a large coffee before I go to teach my first class. During the class I have to go to the bathroom 5 times. I want to design an experiment to test whether drinking coffee causes me to have to go to the bathroom more frequently. I feel that IF I reduce the amount of coffee I drink, THEN I won't have to go the bathroom, as much.
WHY IS THIS A HYPOTHESIS, AND NOT AN INFERENCE; EVEN THOUGH BOTH ARE STATEMENTS WHERE YOU TELL WHAT YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN?=>>>>I feel that IF I reduce the amount of coffee I drink, THEN I won't have to go the bathroom, as much.
A. BECAUSE HYPOTHESES ARE BASED ON OBSERVATIONS, AND INFERENCES ARE NOT
B. BECAUSE INFERENCES ARE BASED ON OBSERVATIONS, AND HYPOTHESES ARE NOT
C. BECAUSE THIS STATEMENT IS GOING TO BE TESTED WITH AN EXPERIMENT
D. BECAUSE THIS STATEMENT IS NOT GOING TO BE TESTED WITH AN EXPERIMENT
What is C. BECAUSE THIS STATEMENT IS GOING TO BE TESTED WITH AN EXPERIMENT?
500
In the "Boy in the Water" assignment, we labeled this statement as an inference=>> THE GOAT BUTTED THE BOY INTO THE POND.
WHY WAS THIS AN INFERENCE, AND NOT AN OBSERVATION?
A. WE ACTUALLY WITNESSED THE GOAT DOING THIS IN THE PICTURE. SO, WE KNOW IT HAPPENED FOR SURE.
B. WE DIDN'T WITNESS THIS HAPPENING, WE ASSUMED IT BECAUSE THE GOAT WAS STANDING NEAR THE BOY IN THE WATER.
What is B. WE DIDN'T WITNESS THIS HAPPENING, WE ASSUMED IT BECAUSE THE GOAT WAS STANDING NEAR THE BOY IN THE WATER?
500
I want to know how drinking tea affects how fast my headaches go away.
WHAT WOULD BE THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE IS IN THIS TEST?
A. WHETHER YOU DRINK TEA OR NOT
B. HOW FAST HEADACHES GO AWAY
C. WHETHER YOU LIKE THE TASTE OF THE TEA
What is A. WHETHER YOU DRINK THE TEA OR NOT?
500
Ms. Houston and the home economics class were baking brownies and cakes for a bake sale. The class wanted to know which kind of oil made the brownies and cakes more moist. So, they made a batch of brownies with canola oil and another batch with vegetable oil. She used the same amount of all ingredients for both batches, and baked them at the two different temperatures.
WHAT MISTAKE DID THEY MAKE?
A. USING 2 DIFFERENT KINDS OF OILS
B. USING 2 DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES TO BAKE THEM
C. USING THE SAME AMOUNT OF ALL OF THE INGREDIENTS
D. THEY DIDN'T MAKE ANY MISTAKES
What is B. USING 2 DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES TO BAKE THEM?