Chapter 1.1 Science and the Natural World

Which skills involves creating representations of complex objects or processes?

• Classifying
• Predicting
• Making Models
• Evaluating

 What kind of observation deals with numbers?

• Quantitative
• Qualitative
• Descriptive
• Sensory

 Which of the following do scientist use when observing?

• Only their senses
• Only their tools
• Their senses and tools
• Their tools and observations

Grouping together all things that are alike is called what?

• Predicting
• Inferring
• Classifying
• Evaluating

Which of the following is an example of a model?

• Tool
• Mathematical Equation
• Scientist
• Observation

What type of variable is changed to test a hypothesis? 

• Independent
• Dependent
• Controlled
•  Uncontrolled 

What are you doing when you learn about and explore the natural world

• Observing
• Predicting
• Classifying
• Science

What is it called when you compare observations and data to reach a conclusion about them?

• Observing
• Evaluating
• Concluding 
• Predicting

When you interpret something you observe you are making a what?

• Infererence
• Observation
• Evaluatoni
• Prediction

 When you state what you think will happen in the future you are making a what?

• Evaluation
• Inference
• Prediction
• Observation