Scientific Method Vocabulary

Match the following

• A guess or opinion made based on an observation

• Observation

• Information gathered through the senses

• Inference

• Attempts to answer WHY something happens

• Theory

• Educated guess based on research

• Hypothesis

• Observation of WHAT does happen

• Law

Reorder the following.

• observations

• hypothesis

• materials

• question

• procedure

Match the following

• Why something happens

• Control or Constants

• What is changed

• Independent Variable

• What is measured or evaluated

• Dependent Variable

• stays the same

• Theory

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

The _______________________ is a series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question.

• scientific method

• recipe

• data collection

• metric system

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

A hypothesis is?

• Information someone noticed

• An educated guess

• Making a guess beforehand

What the person performing the activity sees, hears, smells, or tastes.

• experiment

• observation

• prediction

• guess

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The part of an experiment that you, the scientist, changes or controls before the experiment

• Control

• Independent variable

• Dependent variable

The steps taken to find the answer to a problem is called a

• Conclusion

• procedure

• observation

• trials

The factor whose value is the result you are testing is called the ​ (a)  

• dependent variable
• constant
• variable
• data
• trials
• scientific method

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

The number of times an experiment is conducted are called the ​ (a)  

• trials
• conclusion
• data
• problem
• Procedures
• dependent variable