Scientific Investigations

Look at the image:

Which of the following statements is an inference?

• There are 5 cats.

• Four of the cats are orange.

• The cats are all siblings.

• One cat is black.

Look at the image:

Which of the following is an observation?

• The cats are waiting to be adopted.

• The cats lost their mom.

• There are four orange cats and one black cat.

• They look scared.

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What do we use to make an observation?

• our 5 senses

• an inference

• independent variable

• dependent variable

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Pick all of the following that are examples of quantitative data:

• The girl screamed loudly.

• There are 5 puppies.

• She measured 500 milliliters.

• The chair is green.

• The elephant weighed 5,000 pounds

Pick all of the following that are examples of qualitative data:

• There are 23 students in the room.

• The boy has brown hair.

• The mass of the rock was 57 grams.

• She has green eyes.

• The pond was slimy.

______ data describes something such as colors and textures.

• independent

• dependent

• quantitative

• qualitative

Quantitative data is ____________.

• used to describe the quality

• written in numbers

• come from observations

• are written in descriptive words

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What scientific tool is this and what does it measure?

• scale, mass

• thermometer, temperature

• ruler, length

• stopwatch, time

A scale is used to measure _________.

• length

• volume

• time

• mass

What is this tool called and what does it measure?

• scale, mass

• beaker, temperature

• measuring cup, mass

• graduated cylinder, volume