Scientific Processes

1. You get home from school and notice that your front yard is flooded. Give two possible hypotheses for this observation.

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-5

2. Every time you go to the park, you see only swans on the pond. Therefore, you conclude that swans are the only birds that inhabit that pond. What type of reasoning is this?

• inductive
• deductive

3. You hypothesize that using a weighted blanket will help you sleep longer at night. You decide to design a controlled experiment to test this hypothesis. List the independent variable, the dependent variable, and three controlled variables in this experiment.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

4. Andrew Wakefield is the former physician that claimed to have conducted a study that linked the MMR vaccine with autism. After publication, his research was found to be fraudulent and he was investigated for undisclosed financial conflicts of interest. He was stripped of his medical license due to his falsification of research, but his results had already caused a sharp decline in the vaccination rate among children. Did the peer review process fail in this situation? Explain your answer.

5. A town is deciding whether to build a hydroelectric dam on their local river. Using one of the three ethical worldviews discussed in class, give an opinion that an individual with that worldview may have about this situation. (Please list the worldview you are describing, as well.)

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NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

10. A Siberian tiger weighs, on average, 360,000 grams. How many pounds is this? (1 kg= 2.2 lbs) (kilo=1000)

Mathematical Equivalence

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