Scientific Method Vocabulary

What is the term for a possible explanation to a question that must be testable?

• Law

• Hypothesis

• Theory

• Observation

Which variable in an experiment is deliberately changed by the scientist?

• Dependent Variable

• Constant

• Independent Variable

• Control

What do scientists use to gather information using their senses?

• Inference

• Observation

• Theory

• Law

What is a statement made after an experiment is tested, analyzed, and observations are made?

• Hypothesis

• Conclusion

• Law

• Control

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Which part of an experiment is kept the same throughout to ensure a fair test?

• Constant

• Dependent Variable

• Independent Variable

• Law

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

What is the term for a statement of fact that a particular phenomenon always occurs if certain conditions are present?

• Theory

• Law

• Hypothesis

• Conclusion

Which variable changes as a result of the independent variable in an experiment?

• Constant

• Dependent Variable

• Control

• Law

What is the part of an experiment where no variables are changed called?

• Control

• Constant

• Theory

• Law

What is the process of making a deduction or assumption based on pre-experimental observations?

• Observation

• Inference

• Prediction

• Conclusion

What is the explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment?

• Law

• Theory

• Hypothesis

• Control

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6