Science Midterm Review

Avery read about growing plants in water. She wanted to know how plants could grow without soil.

• coming up with a question

• test the hypothesis with an experiment

• form a hypothesis

• draw conclusions

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Information you obtain through your senses, such as touch, sound and sight.

• observation
• hypothesis
• question
• conclusion

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Maya and Benjamin are working on a science project to find out why plants grow towards light. They decide to follow a series of steps used by scientists to solve this problem or answer their question. 

• scientific method

• recipe

• data collection

• metric system

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Emma is conducting an experiment to see how different amounts of water affect the growth of a plant. The independent variable is the ONE thing you _____.

• change on purpose

• control or keep constant

• measure

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Henry is conducting an experiment to test the effect of sunlight on plant growth. How many independent variables should Henry have in his experiment?

• two

• as many as possible

• four

• one

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Aiden is conducting an experiment to see how different amounts of sunlight affect the growth of a plant. The variable that is being measured or observed is called the _______________. Hint: this is the variable that is the result or effect

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• control variable

Henry is conducting an experiment to see how different amounts of sunlight affect the growth of plants. What is a constant/control in his experiment?

• Things that do not change in a experiment. It's the variable that stays the same. You can have many variables stay the same.

• It's the variables that the scientist changes in the experiment

• It's the variables that are being measured in an experiment

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Anika and Benjamin were playing with clay and noticed that it could be molded into different forms. However, when they played with a wooden block, they observed that it had a definite _______________.

• smell

• shape

• picture

• sound

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NGSS.2-PS1-1

NGSS.2-PS1-2

Hannah poured juice into a glass. The juice takes the shape of _______.

• a gas

• water

• a pet

• Its container

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

When Hannah left an ice cube on the kitchen counter, the ice cube _______________.

• melts

• freezes

• turns into a gas

• floats

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4