The Nature of Science & Introduction to Biology

what is the study of living things called?

• biology
• bionic
• bioligy
• bilogly

what is the name of the science that deals with chemicals and what things are made of?

• alchemy
•   chemistry
• achlemy
• chemisty

what is the name of the study of the nature and properties of matter and energy

• pshysics
• physical
• physics
• phisics

......... variable is the variable being tested and measured

• right
• wrong
• dependent
• independent

the ........variable is the variable that  can be changed or controlled in a scientific experiment

• dependent
• controlled
• indipendant
• independent

A good way to get some results in science is to do an ..........

• exterminate
• experience
• experiment
• expirement

A lab coat protects your clothing from chemicals and..........protect your eyes in the lab.

• glasses of safeness
• saifty oggles
• safety goggles
• saefty googles

At the end of an experiment, the scientist must give a .....

• conclusion
• conscussion
• construction
• collusion

Carmen conducted an experiment to determine if listening to different types of music would affect a person’s pulse. Her hypothesis was that pulse rate would change with different types of music. Each person listened to seven different selections of music for 30 seconds each. Each person’s pulse was taken before the music and then after each 30-second interval of music. The pulses were taken again after the music selections were completed. Based on her experiment, Carmen concluded that a person’s pulse rate changed when the person listened to different types of music. What is Carmen missing from her experiment?

• a question
• a hypothesis
• a control group
• a description of the experiement

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

If a company claims that its product has been proven scientifically, which of the following should have taken place if the results are to be considered?

• The company should have held discussions with leading industry scientists.
• Technology should have been used in both the gathering of data and data analysis.
• Results should have been peer reviewed and repeated producing the same findings
• The results of the investigation should have been published in popular magazines