Scientific Method

1. When you decide whether or not the data supports the original hypothesis, you are ________.

• A. asking question

• B. drawing conclusions

• C. forming a hypothesis

• D. making observations

2. The scientific method is a process for experimentation that is used to explore observations and answer questions. What is the first step in completing the scientific method?

• A. Hypothesis

• B. Observation

• C. Project experimentation

• D. Research

3. What are the five steps of scientific method? Arrange them from first to last?

• A. Observation, Problem, Hypothesis, Experimentation and Conclusion

• B. Observation, Problem Hypothesis, Conclusion and Experimentation

• C. Problem, Observation, Hypothesis, Experimentation and Conclusion

• D. Problem, Observation, Experimentation, Hypothesis and Conclusion

4. Which of the following hypothesIs is written correctly?

• A. Frozen tennis balls will not bounce as high

• B. If a tennis ball is frozen, it won’t bounce as high as one that is not frozen

• C. If I freeze a tennis ball, then it will not bounce as high.

• D. If I heat up a tennis ball it will bounce high.

5. Mrs. Flores showed the class potted plants placed on the window sills. She asked them to observe the direction of their growth. The students observed that the plants tended to grow outward. Then, the teacher asked the class this question: “Why do you think they grow outward?” What was Mister Flores engaging the pupils to do?

• A. Draw conclusion

• B. Design a experiment

• C. Formulate hypothesis

• D. Observe

6. In science, an educated guess is called a/an____________.

• A. conclusion

• B. hypothesis

• C. observation

• D. question

7. The second step to the scientific method is to state the “problem”, the scientific question to be solved. What is one requirement that needs to be fulfilled in order for the “problem” to be valid?

• A. It needs to be a problem that can be computed mathematically.

• B. It needs to be a problem that can be solved experimentally.

• C. It needs to be a problem that has a number answer.

• D. It needs to be a problem that has a yes or no answer.

8. In science, an educated guess is called a/an____________.

• A. conclusion

• B. hypothesis

• C. observation

• D. question

9. What skill does a scientist uses when she listens to the sounds that whales make?

• A. Drawing conclusions

• B. Interpreting data

• C. Making observations

• D. Making a hypothesis

10. Suzie said, “Maybe the students studied hard for test 2”. She said this after seeing on a line graph that the class average was 95%. This is an example of__________.

• A. a hypothesis

• B. a problem

• C. an inference

• D. an observation