Scientific Investigation

This is the variable that you purposefully change in an experiment:

• Dependent variable

• Independent variable

• Control

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

The two main scientific investigations are (choose two answers)

• Observations

• Pictures

• Controlled Experiments

What is a control?

• The thing being measured in an experiment

• Everything that is the same in an experiment

• The thing being changed in an experiment

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What is the last thing a scientists does after analyzing and organizing the data?

• Identify variables

• Develop a hypothesis

• Come to a conclusion and share the results

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

The information collected during an investigation is:

• pictures

• data

• numbers only

• words only

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

If I change two things in an experiment, it is a controlled experiment.

• False

• True

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

An experiment with only one variable is a _______________

If I change the ___________ then this will happen.

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Which variable may change and probably will change in the experiment, but "I" don't change it?

• Independent variable
• Dependent variable
• Constant

That this animal has fur is an...

• inference
• conclusion
• observation
• opinion