Scientific Knowledge and Practices

________ is the process of obtaining information by using the senses. 

• analyze

• inference

• observation

• hypothesis

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

True or False: If your hypothesis is wrong, you must have conducted your experiment with errors and must dismiss what you learned.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Do laws become theories or do theories become laws?

• Theories become laws

• Laws become theories

• Neither answer is correct.

• Both answers are correct.

The global average temperature has increased for the last 40 years due to an increase of atmospheric CO₂ levels from burning fossil fuels.

• Law

• Theory

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Neither laws nor theories can ever be proven definitively. Instead, we accept them as long as the available data supports them.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

Scientists ___________ experiments to make sure the results are meaningful.

• perform

• repeat

• conclude

• communicate

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Theory or Law? Big Bang _______: the universe came from one minute particle and expanded over billions of years to what we see today. Tries to explain how the universe was created.

• Theory

• Law

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-2

Evidence is ___________________

• A statement or conclusion that answers a question

• Scientific data that supports the claim

• A justification that connects the claim to the evidence

• Not vital when using an argument

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Includes observations and measurements and all the data that people gather and test to support and evaluate scientific explanations.

• fieldwork

• theory

• empirical evidence

• pseudoscience

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

All the measurements and data scientists gather in support of a scientific explanation.

• law

• theory

• empirical evidence

• experiment

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NGSS.HS-LS1-6

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

NGSS.HS-PS2-5