Making Predictions

The Okeeheelee Boys Basketball team will win the County Championship this year

• Prediction

• Observation

• Inference

When you tell that something will happen in the future, you are making

• a motion

• an observation

• a prediction

• a mass

Can you predict the pattern of motion of the jump rope?

• circular around Izzy

• from side to side

• swinging back and forth

• just up and down

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Which of these pendulums do you predict will have the fastest motion?

• the longest one

• the shortest one

• the medium length one

• all will swing the same speed

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Patterns of motion can be used to _________.

• make predictions

• make matter

• make energy

• none of these

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You want to know which slide will take longer to get from the top to the bottom. What observation should you make?

• Observe how wet each person gets.

• Time a person going down each slide.

• Time how long it takes a person to get to the top of each slide

• Observe which slide is more popular.

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You walk in the classroom and see a basket of cucumbers on the counter. Someone shouts out "Ms. McSherry will be eating cucumbers for lunch tomorrow!" This person is making a(n)

• qualitative observation

• inference

• quantitative observation

• prediction

Making an inference about a future event. A prediction based upon evidence and past experience.

• Observations

• Predicting

• Inferring

• Communicating

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Which of the following is an example of making a prediction in a scientific experiment?

• Recording the temperature of a solution

• Stating that a plant will grow taller if given more sunlight

• Measuring the mass of a chemical

• Observing the color change in a reaction

In a weather forecast, predicting that it will rain tomorrow is an example of:

• A hypothesis

• An observation

• A prediction

• An experiment

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