Information you get from your experiment (organized into charts and graphs).

• representing data

• observing

• communicating

Which of the following would be considered quantitative data?

• Color
• Smell
• 6.84 cm
• texture

Explaining the color of a chemical would be what kind of observation? We would use the 5 senses to make this kind of observation.

• Qualitative 
• Quanitative

A series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question. 

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

When experimenting with the growth of a plant, a scientist uses three (of the same type of) plants, two different fertilizers, equal light, and equal water. The fact that we kept the light, plant, and water the same in each experiment are examples of ____________.

• Inference & Predicting

• Measuring

• Controlled variables

What is using your 5 senses (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting when appropriate) along with the right tools to gather information called?

• hypothesizing
• communicating
• observing
• questioning

What science skill involves the sharing of observations, ideas, models, or conclusions with others by means of talking, writing, drawing, making physical models, creating charts, etc...

• communicating
• experimenting
• measuring
• observing

Mary wants to know how far she can stretch the rubberband before it breaks. She stretches the rubber band and uses a ruler to record the length in centimeters each time. What skill is this?

• Experimenting

• Measuring

• Inference & Predicting

• Classifying

The steps you follow when performing your experiments.

• Observing

• Measuring

• Communicating

• Experimenting

In Mr. Murphy's tomato experiment:

He recorded his information in the graph shown above. Identify the science process skill.

• Observing

• Representing data

• Classifying