Scientific Method Quiz

An educated guess made before the experiment using if... then... statement

• inference

• hypothesis

• observation

• conclusion

• pickles

What is an observation?

• What you have decided based on your results.

• The condition or factor that changes in an experiment so the effect can be observed.

• The process of gathering information using your senses about events or processes .

• Testing an idea or hypothesis through a controlled investigation.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

What is the Scientific Method?

• What you have decided based on your results.

• A step by step procedure used by scientists to solve a problem or discover why things happen

• the process of gathering information about events or processes in a careful, orderly way

• An educated guess that answers your question.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

What is the correct order of the scientific method?

• Ask a Question,

  Conclusion,

  Do Research, Analyze the Data

  Make and experiment.

• Make an Observation

  Ask a Question

  Do Research

  Form a Hypothesis

  Experiment

  Analyze Data

  Conclusion

• Form a Hypothesis

  Ask a Question

  Analyze Data

  Do Research

  Experiment

  Conclusion

What is a Hypothesis?

• An Educated guess on what we think will happen.

• A fact that we already know.

• A question.

• Something we don't think will happen

The Hypothesis is always right. True or False?

• True

• False

What do we use when we observe?

• hearing

• touching

• taste

• smell

• all of the above

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The independent variable is the

• The variable that you change in an experiment

• A variable that you keep the same in an experiment

• The variable that you measure in an experiment.

This part of the scientific method must include whether your hypothesis is correct or not.

• Hypothesis

• Experiment

• Conclusion

• Observations

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

This part of the experiment is what is being measured or depends on the independent variable.

• dependent variable

• constants

• independent variable

• hypothesis