The Scientific Method

What is a Constant?

• An educated guess

• Something that stays the same

• A tool that shows changes of data over time

• A step by step instruction

What is a Hypothesis?

• A tool that shows changes of data over time

• A tool to organize your observations

• An educated guess

• Something that changes in the experiment

What is a Procedure?

• A step by step instruction

• A tool that shows changes of data over time

• An educated guess

• variable that is changed to be tested

What is a independent variable?

• Something that stays the same

• An educated guess

• variable that is changed to be tested

• Something that stays the same

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What is a dependent variable?

• A tool that shows changes of data over time

• A tool to organize your observations

• An educated guess

• changing results that are measured

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

What is a control group?

• changing results that are measured

• An educated guess

• A tool that shows changes of data over time

• standard for comparison in an experiment.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

All scientific investigations begin with

• forming a hypothesis

• conducting an experiment

• asking a question

• forming a conclusion

Every experiment should consist of two groups.

• control group and experimental group

• group A and group B

• dependent group and independent group

• conclusion group and variable group

The variable that is deliberately changed in an experiment is called

• dependent variable

• controlled variable

• hypothetical variable

• independent variable

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

How many variables can be test at once?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4