How Science Works

A way of learning about the natural world is called what? 

• Predictions
• Science
• Inferring
• Classifying

Using one or more of your senses to gather information is known as what?

• Observing
• Predicting
• Inferring
• Classifying

 What is the type of observation that does not deal with numbers

• Quantitative
• Inference
• Qualitative
• Simple

 Grouping items that are similar is some ways is called what?

• Predicting
• Inferring
• Observing
• Classifying

Making a statement or claim about what will happen in the future is called a what? 

• Predicting
• Inferring
• Classifying
• Observing

 Creating representations of complex objects or processes is called what? 

• Observing
• Making Models
• Inferring
• Concluding

What is it called what you explain or interpret something you observe? 

• Observing
• Classifying
• Inferring
• Predicting

 What factor is purposely changed to test a hypothesis? 

• Dependent Variable
• Control Group
• Variable
• Independent Variable

A possible answer to a scientific question is called a what? 

• Observation
• Hypothesis
• Statement
• Inference

The factor that you observe that may change in response to the independent variable is called what? 

• Independent Variable
• Control Group
• Experiment
• Dependent Variable