Scientific Inquiry Quiz Review

What do you do if glass breaks in the lab?

• Sweep it up

• Panic

• Tell your teacher

• Blame someone else

To gather factual information about your surroundings using your five senses.

• observation

• inference

• prediction

An educated guess or opinion formed about what is happening or has happened based on observations.

• observation

• inference

• prediction

A forecast about what will happen in the future based on evidence.

• observation

• inference

• prediction

Which measurement tool is used to measure mass?

• triple beam balance

• ruler

• thermometer

• graduated cylinder

Which measurement tool is used to measure length?

• triple beam balance

• ruler

• thermometer

• graduated cylinder

Which measurement tool is used to measure temperature?

• triple beam balance

• ruler

• thermometer

• graduated cylinder

Which measurement tool is used to measure volume?

• triple beam balance

• ruler

• thermometer

• graduated cylinder

An if, then statement that predicts the outcome of an experiment.

• hypothesis

• inference

• observation

• analysis

The many variables that stay the same throughout the entire experiment

• control variables

• independent variables

• dependent variables