Science Benchmark Review 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

What is another word for an educated guess?

• Conclusion
• Hypothesis
• Scientific Investigation
• Prediction

What tool do we use to measure volume

• Thermometer
• Balance Scale
• Graduated Cylinder
• Meter Stick

What is a controlled variable?

• A variable that is changed during the experiment.
• A variable that is not changed during the experiment

This occurs when light bounces off of a smooth surface.

• Refraction
• Echo
• Reflection
• Transparent

The trough of a wave---

• determines how large a wave is.
• Determines the pitch of a sound.
• Is at the bottom of a wave.
• Is at the top of a wave.

Which of these is not a color of the visible spectrum.

• Green
• Black
• Violet
• Red

A convex lens---

• Bends outward
• Bends inward

Sounds needs this to travel.

• sunlight
• a medium
• instruments
• a vaccuum

Which of these is transparent?

• Basketball
• Diamond
• Paper
• Fish Bowl

We see color because when the light hits the object, that color is---

• reflected
• absorbed