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WorksheetsScientific Method
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
An organized plan for gathering, organizing, and communicating information.
a)
hypothesis
b)
question
c)
scientific method
d)
observation
2.
Information you obtain through your senses, such as touch, sound and sight.
a)
observation
b)
hypothesis
c)
question
d)
conclusion
3.
A prediction or guess based on observations.
a)
data
b)
scientific process
c)
hypothesis
d)
question
4.
What do you want to know, understand or figure out?
a)
hypothesis
b)
conclusion
c)
question
d)
data
5.
A test used to discover something unknown.
a)
data
b)
variable
c)
conclusion
d)
experiment
6.
All factors that can change in an experiment.
a)
variable
b)
data
c)
conclusion
d)
result
7.
The outcome of your test.
a)
variable
b)
results
c)
experiment
d)
question
8.
Information gathered from your experiment.
a)
observation
b)
variable
c)
hypothesis
d)
data
9.
Kay enters a 5th grade science fair with a project about candles. She asks, "Will the temperature of the air affect how fast a candle burns?"
a)
This is her hypothesis.
b)
This is her conclusion
c)
This is her problem.
d)
This is her observation.
10.
Mave wants to know which color of candy kids prefer. What would be an important variable in her experiment?
a)
Only ask her friends.
b)
Use the same candy in different colors but same flavor.
c)
Do the experiment right before lunch so the kids are hungry.
d)
Ask each person what their favorite kind of candy is.
11.
An explanation to a problem, which can be tested scientifically through an investigation is known as what?
a)
variable
b)
hypothesis
c)
experiment
d)
control
12.
What is the last step of scientific method?
a)
hypothesis
b)
observe
c)
present results
d)
question
13.
What is one of the first steps when investigating a scientific question?
a)
variable
b)
research
c)
conclude
d)
observe
14.
Something that stays the same and remains constant in an experiment is known as __.
a)
control
b)
variable
c)
temperature
d)
data
15.
Which shows the correct steps of scientific method?
a)
purpose, research, hypothesis, experiment, result, conclusion
b)
purpose, research, conclusion, experiment result, hypothesis
c)
hypothesis, purpose, result, research, experiment, conclusion
d)
research, hypothesis, purpose, experiment, result, conclusion
16.
Purpose is also called ___.
a)
research
b)
conclusion
c)
results
d)
question
17.
After you have followed the steps of the experiment and recorded your results you should __.
a)
make a graph or chart
b)
make a hypothesis
c)
be done
d)
find a variable
18.
What you learned from the experiment is the ___.
a)
conclusion
b)
hypothesis
c)
variable
d)
materials
19.
If you are testing the buoyancy of a cotton ball and you leave one plain, cover one half in oil, and cover the third in oil completely then place each in water, what is the variable?
a)
water
b)
cotton ball
c)
amount of oil
d)
time
20.
If you conduct an experiment where you place 5 of the same red candies in different types of soda, all in the same amount of liquid and same type cups the variable is what?
a)
type of cup
b)
color of candy
c)
kind of soda
d)
amount of soda
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