Tools of Environmental Science Review

A series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question.

• scientific method

• recipe

• data collection

• metric system

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

What step does every scientific experiment begin with?

• hypothesis
• question/problem
• procedures
• conclusion

A possible explanation to a problem that has not yet been tested.

• data

• theory

• hypothesis

• fact

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NGSS.HS-PS1-2

Read each statement. Then choose whether the statement is an observation, inference, or prediction.

The container is filled to the 350 mL mark.

• Observation

• Inference

• Prediction

Read each statement. Then choose whether the statement is an observation, inference, or prediction.
In 6 months, it will be too hot to go outside. 

• Observation
• Inference
• Prediction

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Information gathered using your 5 senses is called an

• Observation

• Inference

If you increase the amount of spinach you eat, then you will increase the iron in your blood. 
What's the dependent variable?

• increase the amount of iron in your blood
• spinach you eat

What is a factor that the experimenter has full control over and changes to see what happens?

• Dependent Variable
• Independent Variable
• Control group 
• Hypothesis

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

A dependent variable is __________.

• What is measured in an experiment

• What you change in an experiment

• A prediction about an experiment

• What stays the same in an experiment

What is the 2nd step of the scientific method?

• method

• hypothesis

• question

• observation