Living Environment Vocab Contest #1

Which of the following words means "a scientific procedure undertaken to test a hypothesis"?

• experiment

• phenomenon

• variable

• hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Which of these words means "an event or situation that can be observed to exist"?

• experiment

• phenomenon

• variable

• hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

Which of these words means "a proposed explanation for a phenomenon based on initial observation"?

• experiment

• phenomenon

• variable

• hypothesis

Which of the following sequences is the correct procedure for the scientific method

• Observation, Question, Research, Hypothesis, Experimentation, Drawing conclusions, Communicating results

• Observe, Hypothesis, Guess, Evidence, ???, Profit

• Hypothesis, Experiment, Research, Question, Observation, Communicating results, Drawing conclusions

• Experiment, Hypothesis, Observation, Research, Question, Communicating results, Drawing conclusions

• Research, Question, Hypothesis, Preheat oven, Mix dry ingredients, Blend on high, Milk, Bread, Eggs, Sort to-do lists

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Which of these were the two competing theories for how diseases spread before the discovery of microorganisms?

• parthenogenesis

• transmutation

• miasma theory

• contagion theory

• string theory

Which of the following could be defined as "the science of preventing the spread of diseases in a community”?

• Hygiene

• Cholera

• Public health

• Sanitation

• Healthcare

The extent to which the findings of repeated experiments, conducted under identical or similar conditions, agree with one another

• Experimentation

• Hypothesis

• Veracity

• Reliability

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-5

_______ is when the experiment correctly tests the hypothesis following scientific procedure

• Reliability

• Validity

• Accuracy

• Variable

Which of these images best represents an observational study?

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Which of these images best represents a controlled experiment?

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Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4