HMH Florida Science 4th Grade Unit 1 Lessons 1-3 Review Quiz

Lilith and Jaxxon are curious about how plants grow, why the sky is blue, and how animals live in different places. What would you call someone like them who asks questions about the natural world?

• A person who asks questions about the natural world

• A person who studies the planets

• A person who studies animals

• A person who studies rocks and minerals

Vera and Wade place a bowl of plain water, salt water, and sugar water in the freezer and check on the bowls every 20 minutes. They record the time when the liquid in each bowl freezes. What are they investigating?

• How each liquid tastes

• How long it takes each bowl to melt

• How each liquid feels to the touch

• How long it takes each bowl to freeze

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Jaxxon, Marci, and Nathan are working together on a science project. What does it mean when they collaborate?

• Working alone

• To disagree with others

• Working with others towards the same goal

• To work against others towards the same goal

Amelia and Henil are working on a science project. They create a small version of a bridge to understand how it works before building the real one. What is this mental or physical representation of the bridge called?

• studying

• observation

• classification

• model

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-2

Hamza and Lilith conducted an experiment to see how different amounts of sunlight affect plant growth. After analyzing their data, which is a way that scientists like Hamza and Lilith use conclusions?

• To decide if their results are correct

• To show other scientists that they are the best at conducting experiments

• To change their hypothesis to match their results

• To decide if they should change their conclusions

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Cheyenne made this chart to display her plant experiment. When scientists display the results of their investigation on a chart like this one what skill are they using?

• observation

• hypothesis

• communication

• investigation

Zaiden and Amelia notice that plants in their classroom grow faster when placed near the window. They want to make a statement that they can test to explain this observation. What does hypothesis mean?

• An untested conclusion based on your observations

• A possible explanation or answer to a question; a testable statement

• A procedure carried out to gather data about an object or event

• individual facts, statistics and items of information

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Rachel adds more chocolate chips to her cookie recipe because she thinks they will make the cookies taste better. What do the chocolate chips represent in the inquiry process?

• variable

• conclusion

• question

• hypothesis

Marci and Karson are studying how far basketballs travel. Each student rolled the basketball and then measured how far each basketball rolled. What part of the scientific inquiry process are they doing?

• communicating results

• making a predictions

• drawing conclusions

• conducting an investigation

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NGSS.3-PS2-1

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Amelia wanted to study the effects of growing plants in the light and in the dark. She created a poster to display her results. What part of the scientific method does the poster represent?

• communicate the data

• predict the data

• hypothesize the data

• classify the data

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1