Jakobs science test

What is a hypothesis?

• An educated guess or a prediction; an "if, then" statement.

• Scientific story

• A format

• It is a process that is used to find the answers to questions around us.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

What is the scientific method?

• It is a process that is used to find answers to questions about the world around us.

• It is an educated guess based on observation and your knowledge of the topic.

• It is gathered information during an experiment

• One of the testable questions

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

What are the 3 characteristics of a testable question?

• Specific, observable, scientific

• Questionable, changeable, observable

• Specific, intensify, changeable

• Small, medium and large

What are variables?

• They are parts in an experiments that are likely to change.

• They are parts in an experiment that are likely to remain the same

• Way of measurements

• Use to compare the results

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Experiments have two main types of variables. What are they?

• Open and closed

• Independent and dependent

• Tested and measured

• Outcome and results

What is an independent variable?

• Measured by scientist

• A variable that is changed by a scientist in the experiment. It is the part of the experiment that is being tested

• Gathered results to help the scientist determine the outcome.

• Variables that must remain the Same in an experiment

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

What is a dependent variable?

• What is measured by a scientist in an experiment. Used to gather results to help the scientist determine the outcome.

• Concludes the results

• Not changed

• Only one dependent variable in an experiment

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NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What are constants?

• Are variables that must remain the same in an experiment. You need as many constants as possible in an experiment.

• A variable that doesnt change

• Constant results

• An outcome

A control variable is part of the experiment for which the?

• Tested

• Is a scientific method

• Rare

• Independent variable is not changed

How many independent variables should you have in an experiment?

• 1

• 4

• 5

• 2