Scientific Method Vocabulary

Match the following

• Attempts to answer WHY something happens

• Inference

• Educated guess based on research

• Observation

• Information gathered through the senses

• Law

• A guess or opinion made based on an observation

• Hypothesis

• Observation of WHAT does happen

• Theory

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-2

Reorder the following.

• question

• hypothesis

• materials

• procedure

• observations

Match the following

• What is changed

• Independent Variable

• stays the same

• Theory

• What is measured or evaluated

• Control or Constants

• Why something happens

• Dependent Variable

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

A hypothesis is?

• Information someone noticed

• An educated guess

• Making a guess beforehand

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-3

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2