7th Grade Scientific Method Test Review

Information gathered using your 5 senses is called

• an observation.

• an inference.

Explaining or interpreting an observation is called?

• Predicting

• Making Models

• Inferring

• Classifying

What is grouping observations that are alike in some way called?

You own a dog. You come home to toilet paper all over the living room floor. What can you infer happened?

Observation or Inference? Dark colored houses heat up faster than light colored houses.

• Observation

• Inference

A variable is something you

• measure in an experiment.

• something you change in an experiment.

• something you add to an experiment.

• something you throw away in an experiment.

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

The variable that "I", the scientist, change in an experiment is

• independent/manipulated

• dependent/responding

• control.

• constant.

The "D"ata that is collected during an experiment is the ____________________ variable.

• independent/manipulated

• dependent/responding

• control.

• constant.

Observation or Inference? There are 11 players on the field.

• Observation

• Inference

Qualitative or Quantitative? The floor is white.

• Qualitative

• Quantitative