Scientific Method Review

What is a hypothesis?

• a prediction to answer your question

• a conclusion

• an idea

• an answer

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What is an Inference?

• what is happening

• what you see

• an assumption based on observations and prior knowledge

• a guess

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NGSS.MS-PS3-5

What is an Observation?

• what you think is happening

• descriptions made by using your senses

• assumptions

Tags

NGSS.2-PS1-1

What is the scientific method?

• how to do an experiment

• how to find an answer

• A series of steps designed to help you solve problems and answer questions

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What is a Conclusion?

• make new inferences based on your analyzed data

• a final answer

• a prediction to answer your question

when do you use “if” and “then”?

• inference

• observation

• hypothesis

• conclusion

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

Facts, figures, and other evidence learned through observation are called

• data

• observations

• inferences

• graphs

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What variable do you change?

• dependent

• independent

• constant

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What variable do you measure?

• independent

• constant

• dependent

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Which variable stays the same?

• constant

• independent

• dependent