Science Inquiry

What is science about?

• answering questions

• memorizing boring facts

• making guesses about things without researching or experimenting

• reading about other people's ideas

What is true about the independent variable.

• It is the variable you choose.

• It is the variable you measure or observe.

• It is the variable that stays the same.

• You should have at least two of them.

What do you call the variable that you measure or observe?

• the independent variable

• the dependent variable

• the controlled variable

• the manipulated variable

What is the independent variable in the experiment with plants and water?

• the size of the plant

• the number of leaves on the plant

• the amount of water

• how long the plants live

What is the dependent variable in the experiment with the water and the plants?

• the amount of water

• the amount of sunlight

• the temperature of the water

• the growth of the plant

What is the hypothesis?

• the thing that you change in an experiment

• the steps that you follow in the experiment

• the answer you get at the end of the experiment

• a prediction about how the independent variable will affect the dependent variable

How do we test a hypothesis?

• by reading about it

• by talking about it with other people

• by doing an experiment

• by making a wild guess about how it will turn out

What do we call information that we gain through our senses?

• inferences

• observations

• hypotheses

• independent variables

What kind of observations are made using only our senses?

• qualitative observations

• quantitative observations

• hypotheses

• dependent variables

What kind of observations use tools to measure or involve counting?

• quantitative observations

• qualitative observations

• dependent observations

• independent observations