Observations Vs. Inferences

Please type your FIRST and LAST name.

Please select your class period.

• A3

• A5

• B6

• B8

• B10

Using one or more of your five senses to gather information describes a(n):

• observation

• inference

• quantitative

• qualitative

Tags

NGSS.4-ESS2-1

When you explain the things you observe, you are making a(n):

• observation

• inference

• qualitative

• quantitative

These involve numbers, or an amount. Seeing that you have 2 text messages on

your phone is a(n):

• observation

• inference

• qualitative observation

• quantitative observation

These involve descriptions that cannot be expressed with numbers. Noticing that a bike is blue or that a grape tastes sour are examples of a(n):

• observation

• inference

• qualitative observation

• quantitative observation

These are based on reasoning from what you already know.

• observations

• inferences

• qualitative observations

• quantitative observations

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Which of the following could be described as an OBSERVATION based on this picture?

• The red object in the picture is approximately twice the size of the gray object above it.

• The duck is about to smash the computer.

• The duck is angry or frustrated.

• The sun is positioned to the right, outside of the frame of the picture.

Which of the following could be described as an OBSERVATION based on this picture?

• The duck is about to smash the computer.

• The duck is angry or frustrated.

• The sun is positioned to the right, outside of the frame of the picture.

• The duck like creature to the left has a blue top (shirt).

Which of the following could be described as an INFERENCE based on this picture?

• The duck like creature appears to have two different colored feet: one orange and one yellow.

• The duck is angry or frustrated and is about to smash the computer with the mallet.

• The red object to the right is approximately twice the height of the gray object above it.

• The duck like creature to the left has a blue top (shirt).