NoS, Sci. Meth. and Charac. of Living Things

This variable in an experiment is the one being deliberately changed by the scientist. 

• dependent variable
• independent variable
• data
• control group

Tags

CCSS.6.EE.A.2C

There are two types of data. Which type of data involves numbers that are obtained by counting or measuring?

• quantitative
• qualitative

A series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question. 

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

An observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and is accepted as true. There is no reason to keep testing or looking for examples.

• hypothesis

• scientific theory

• scientific fact

• scientific law

The summary at the end of an experiment that is based on the outcome of your experiment.

• conclusion

• procedures

• materials

• responding variable

The name of the information that you get from your experiment (you organize it into charts and graphs).

• observations
  conclusion
• data
• variables
• hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

Explaining the color of a chemical would be what kind of observation?

• Qualitative 
• Quanitative

What skill is a scientist using when she listens to the sounds that an elephant makes?

• drawing conclusions
• making observations
• interpreting data
• making a hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Allowing one's personal feelings to influence their conclusions

• objectivity
• bias
• natural
• subjectivity

Fill in the blank. Science is _______________.

• all facts that have been proven.

• a way of knowling.

• a belief in proposed explanations.

• never changing.