What Do Scientists Do?

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What is true of all scientists?

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Scientists study the natural world.

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Kim places a cup of water and a cup of cooking oil in the freezer. Every 30 minutes Kim checks the cup. She records the time when the liquid in each cup freezes. Which question is Kim investigating?

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Which liquid freezes faster, water or cooking oil?

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What is true about Kwan's investigation?

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It involves collaboration.

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Franz wants to investigate moon craters by dripping water into a shallow pan of flour from different heights. What type of experiment is he conducting?

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modeling

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A scientist looks at a graph of the results of his experiment. He draws a conclusion about the results. What is one way the scientist uses his conclusion?

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To decide whether his results are correct