Scientific Inquiry

Multiple Choice

Which term is best describes a person smelling a fire.

• Observation

• Investigation

• Inference

• Prediction

Multiple Choice

Select the qualitative example:

• The smell of a fire.

• A man is measured at the doctors and is 5'11.

• The jets are the best football team.

• It is cloudy so it will rain tommorow.

Multiple Choice

Select the quantitative example:

• The smell of a fire.

• A man is measured at the doctors and is 5'11.

• The jets are the best football team.

• It is cloudy so it will rain tommorow.

Match

Match the following

• Data

• Prediction

• experiment

• conclusion

• hypothesis

collecting information

an inference about the future

a process that follows set procedures to answer a question

the results of an experiment

the statement that a person is trying to prove true or false

• collecting information

• an inference about the future

• a process that follows set procedures to answer a question

• the results of an experiment

• the statement that a person is trying to prove true or false

Multiple Choice

Identify the dependent variable: ​ Students measured the temperature of the water at different depths in Lake Skywalker and found that the temperature varied​

• the students

• water depths

• water temperature

• lake skywalker

Multiple Choice

Identify the indepdent variable: ​ Students measured the temperature of the water at different depths in Lake Skywalker and found that the temperature varied​

• the students

• water depths

• water temperature

• lake skywalker

Multiple Choice

What is the best description of scientific inquiry

• a process that allows us to study the natural world in a logical and repeatable way

• a belief

• a series of guess that eventually lead to an answer

• a process that is long and not repeatable that leads to more questions