SCIENTIFIC PROCESS SKILS

What is the first part of the scientific process?

• conclusion (answers the question)
• method (what we do in the experiment)
• ask a question 
• hypothesis (prediction)

What is the second part of the scientific process?

• conclusion

• hypothesis (prediction)

• ask a question

• result

What is the sixth part of the scientific process?

• Ask a question

• Observations

• Communicate

Which science process skill involves using your five senses to describe what you see, hear, smell, feel, and taste?

• inferring

• predicting

• measuring

• observing

Which science process skill uses a test under controlled conditions and follows steps?

• measuring

• experimenting

• collecting information

• inferring

The cashier counted the money in the drawer after she ended her shift.This is an example of a(n):

• inference

• experiment

• hypothesis

• measurement

What science skill do you use when you read graphs about temperature?

• inferencing

• predicting

• analyzing data

• experimenting

You watch the Weather Channel one night and see that it is supposed to be hot and sunny the next day. You say to yourself “I think tomorrow is going to be a great day for the beach.” What process skill is demonstrated?

• communicating

• predicting

• classifying

• making operational definitions

You go to Modell’s with your parents for a baseball jersey. You notice that soccer equipment is in aisle 1, the baseball equipment in aisle 2, the football equipment in aisle 3, and the hockey equipment in aisle 4.

What process skill is demonstrated?

• classifying

• communicating

• inferring

• predicting

There is a breeze blowing through your classroom disturbing a pile of papers. Your teacher places a hockey puck on the pile of papers. You think to yourself, “A hockey puck is a paper weight!” What process skill is demonstrated?

• predicting

• measuring

• making models

• making operational definitions