Scientific Method Practice Test

What is the dependent variable?

The speed of a car and the amount of time it takes to get to your destination.

• The speed of a car

• The amount of time it takes to get to your destination

What is the independent variable?

Time spent studying and your test score.

• Time spent studying

• Test score

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

What is the independent variable?

Icecream sales and the temperature outside.

• Icecream sales

• Temperature outside

What is a control group?

• A group during an experiment that does not receive the experimental treatment

• A group during an experiment that does receive the experimental treatment

• A group in which the hypothesis does not apply

• All of the things in an experiment that are kept the same.

The variable directly changed or manipulated by the experimenter.

• Dependent variable

• Independent variable

• Control Group

• Experimental Constant

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

The variable that is often measured at the end of an experiment

• Independent variable

• Dependent variable

The ______ variable changes in response to the ______ variable

• independent; dependent

• dependent; independent

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

If plants are exposed to sunlight, then they will grow taller.
What part of the scientific method is this an example of?

• Procedure
• Hypothesis
• Question
• Results

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Anything that can change in an experiment.  There are three types of these in an experiment.

• variables
• constant
• independent
• dependent

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

This part of the experiment serves as a basis of comparison; the one variable being tested has been omitted. 

• experimental group
• control group
• data
• variables