Hypothesis Practice

Choose the best-written hypothesis that answers the question:
Does eating breakfast help students do better in the morning?

• Breakfast is bad because it makes you sick in the mornings.

• Breakfast is good because it gives you energy.

• Then students will eat breakfast in the morning if students do better in the morning.

• If students eat breakfast every day, then they will do better in the mornings because they are more energized.

Hypotheses must be testable

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Choose the best-written hypothesis that answers the question:
Does eating an apple a day keep you from getting sick?

• If you eat an apple a day, then you wont get sick as much because apples are healthy for you.

• Eating an apple a day is healthy for you.

• Then you eat an apple a day if you wont get sick.

• Apples are healthy, so it wont make you sick.

Max is rolling a car down a ramp. Max thinks that cars roll faster on steeper ramps. What is Max's hypothesis?

• If the ramp is steeper, then the car will roll faster.

• the steepness of the ramp

• the speed of the car

• the same car, the same surface, the same wind, etc..

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Zemo has a hot air balloon. Zemo experiments with increasing the air temperature in the balloon to see how it affects the balloons altitude. What is Zemo's hypothesis?

• If the air temperature increases, then the balloon will rise because the molecules will spread out.

• the altitude of the balloon

• the air temperature inside the ballon

• the same balloon

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What three words should be in your hypothesis?

• I think

• My guess

• If... then... because

• No idea

What a hypothesis?

• an explanation about what you observed

• using your 5 senses to gather data

• the thing changed on purpose in the experiment

• an educated guess about what will happen in the experiment.

Max is rolling a car down a ramp. Max thinks that cars roll faster on steeper ramps. What is Max's independent variable?

• If the ramp is steeper, then the car will roll faster.

• the steepness of the ramp

• the speed of the car

• the same car, the same surface, the same wind, etc..

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Max is rolling a car down a ramp. Max thinks that cars roll faster on steeper ramps. What is Max's dependent variable?

• If the ramp is steeper, then the car will roll faster.

• the steepness of the ramp

• the speed of the car

• the same car, the same surface, the same wind, etc..

Julia kicks a ball many times while kicking with different strengths to see how far Julia can kick the ball. What is Julia's hypothesis?

• the same ball

• how hard Julia kicks

• how far the ball goes

• If Julia kicks harder, then the ball goes further.

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2