Science Process Skills TEST REVIEW

What you can directly see, hear, feel, taste, touch or smell using your 5 senses

• hypothesis
• prediction
• inference
• observation

What you think based on your observations, a judgement or opinion about the world around you.  

• hypothesis
• prediction
• inference
• observation

A guess about what might happen in the future based on your observations, inferences, clues and your common sense.

• hypothesis
• prediction
• inference
• observation

A possible answer to a question with one cause for the IF and once cause for the THEN.  It is an educated guess based on research.

• hypothesis
• predition
• inference
• observation

What is changed by the researcher, it causes a change.

• hypothesis
• interpolate
• dependent variable
• independent variable

Measured a the end of an experiment, it is the result of the cause, it depends on something to make it happen.

• hypothesis
• interpolate
• independent variable
• dependent variable

Reading between the lines on a graph, between two data points.

• hypothesis
• independent variable
• dependent variable
• interpolate

Going "off the charts" and predicting what will happen in the future.

• hypothesis
• prediction
• interpolate
• extrapolate

The vertical axis that holds the dependent variable.

• y axis
• x axis
• vertical
• horizontal

The horizontal axis that holds the independent variable.

• y axis
• x axis
• vertical
• horizontal