Unit I Scientific and Engineering practices

What are the three types of investigations?

• Procedure, Experiment, Results
• Descriptive, Comparative, Experimental
• Hypothesis, Variables, Experiment
• Research, Constants, Control

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Which type of investigation does not have a control group?

• Descriptive
• Comparative
• Experimental

Which type of investigation has a control group?

• Descriptive
• Comparative
• Experimental

In which type of investigation would you count the number of leaves on a plant?

• Descriptive
• Comparative
• Experimental

In which type of investigation would you look for similarities between 2 different plants?

• Descriptive
• Comparative
• Experimental

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

In which type of investigation would you compare the growth of plants given different amounts of fertilizer to a plant that was not given any fertilizer?

• Descriptive

• Comparative

• Experimental

Which type of investigation includes all the components of an investigation?

• descriptive
• comparative
• experimental

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

• dependent variable
• independent variable
• data
• control group

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

• quantitative
• qualitative

Which type of data involves descriptions, photographs or illustrations that cannot be counted or measured?

• qualitative
• quantitative