Unit 1 - Scientists at Work

To find out if a person's experiment was accurate and true, you can _____________.

• Choose to agree with their hypothesis

• Repeat the experiment

• Draw your own conclusion

• Change the data

Which of the following is ALWAYS an important part of an experiment?

• Building a model

• Observing things in nature

• Drawing pictures of things you observe

• Identifying and controlling variables

After analyzing data, you should then ________________.

• Ask a questions

• Form a hypothesis

• Draw a conclusion

• Make observations

If the experiment shows the original hypothesis to be false, the scientist _______________.

• Should change the data to fit their hypothesis

• Should doubt the accuracy of the experiment

• Should repeat the experiment

• Should change their hypothesis

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During the experiment, a person should _____________.

• Make a summary

• Keep a record of what is happening

• Research about the subject

• Write their hypothesis

Any condition in an experiment that can be changed is called the ________________.

• Hypothesis

• Control

• Observation

• Variable

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Information collected during an investigation is _____________.

• Opinion

• Conclusion

• Evidence

• Inference

A procedure used to test a hypothesis is ______________.

• Experiment

• Model

• Observation

If scientists want to investigate the planets in the solar system, what scientific method would they use?

• Make a model

• Conduct an experiment

• Repeated observations

Scientists are observing what kinds of butterflies visit a plant at different times of the year. What kind of scientific method are they using?

• Making a model

• Repeated observations

• Conduct an experiment