Vocabulary Quiz - Chapter 1, Lesson 1

What is the study of the natural world called?

• Observing

• Quantitative Observation

• Science

• Inferring

What is the process of using one or more of your senses or special tools to gather information called?

• Qualitative Observation

• Predicting

• Classifying

• Observing

Tags

NGSS.3-PS2-2

NGSS.5-PS1-3

Which type of observation deals with numbers or amounts?

• Qualitative Observation

• Science

• Quantitative Observation

• Evaluating

Which type of observation deals with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers?

• Inferring

• Predicting

• Classifying

• Qualitative Observation

What is the term for explaining or interpreting something based on evidence and reasoning?

• Evaluating

• Models

• Inferring

• Predicting

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

What is the term for making statements or claims about future events based on past experience?

• Classifying

• Predicting

• Science

• Observing

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is the term for grouping together items that are alike in some way?

• Quantitative Observation

• Evaluating

• Classifying

• Models

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What is the term for comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion?

• Science

• Observing

• Evaluating

• Inferring

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What is a representation of an object or process called?

• Predicting

• Models

• Inferring

• Qualitative Observation

How many questions are in this quiz?

• 8

• 9

• 10

• 11