Science Skills Test Review

What you can directly see, hear, feel, taste, touch or smell using your 5 senses

• hypothesis
• prediction
• inference
• observation

What you think based on your observations, a judgement or opinion about the world around you.  

• hypothesis
• prediction
• inference
• observation

A possible answer to a question with one cause for the IF and once cause for the THEN.  It is an educated guess based on research.

• hypothesis
• predition
• inference
• observation

What is changed by the researcher, it causes a change.

• hypothesis
• interpolate
• dependent variable
• independent variable

Measured a the end of an experiment, it is the result of the cause, it depends on something to make it happen.

• hypothesis
• interpolate
• independent variable
• dependent variable

The vertical axis that holds the dependent variable.

• y axis
• x axis
• vertical
• horizontal

The horizontal axis that holds the independent variable.

• y axis
• x axis
• vertical
• horizontal

This graph is used to show patterns over time and to show the IV makes the DV happen.

• line graph
• bar graph
• circle graph
• chart or table

This graph displays information that is counted and can compare.

• line graph
• bar graph
• circle graph
• chart or table

This graph cannot compare or show change over time, but it can show how something is made of parts.

• line graph
• bar graph
• circle graph
• chart or table