WorksheetsExperimental Design, Nature of Science Review
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 19mins
What is the effect of different concentrations of a pesticide on plant height?
What is the independent variable in the above question?
pesticide
height
average
effect
What was the dependent variable?
A car salesman records information about the cars he is selling.
The number of doors is _____ data
Qualitative
Quantitative Continuous
Quantitative Discontinuous
Ranked
A car salesman records information about the cars he is selling.
The colour of each car is _____ data
Qualitative
Quantitative Continuous
Quantitative Discontinuous
Ranked
A shop owner records information about his customers.
The method of transport is _____ data
Qualitative
Quantitative Continuous
Quantitative Discontinuous
Ranked
A shop owner records information about his customers.
The average amount of money spent is _____ data
Qualitative
Quantitative Continuous
Quantitative Discontinuous
Ranked
The number of seats in a car is _____ data
Quantitative Discontinuous
Quantitative Continuous
Ranked
Qualitative
All 30 people leaving at the end of a Manchester City game are asked about their favourite football team.
This is a _____ of all the football supporters in the country.
Random sample
Biased sample
Census
Population
Researchers want to test the effect of a mouthwash on how white teeth are. They make a scale of whiteness from 1 to 10 with 10 being the whitest. What type of data is this?
Quantitative Continuous
Quantitative Discontinuous
Ranked
Qualitative
Over many hundreds of years, a population of rabbits living in the woods adapts to its surrounding with brown fur.
All living things evolve
All living things grow
All living things use energy
All living things have cells
You accidentally touch a hot burner and quickly pull your hand away. The burner is
homeostasis
a reaction
ATP
a stimulus
______________ means that conditions inside our body are kept stable (the same)
homeopathic
Homo sapian
homeostasis
homologous
Dr. Jackson is making observations at Davisville High School to investigate the rate of smoking among American teenagers. Dr. Jackson decides she will observe students having their lunch in the parking lot where smoking is permitted. Dr. Jackson observes 25 out of 30 students smoking in the parking lot. Based on her observations she records that 83.3% of American teenagers smoke. What is the problem with her experiment?
She did not do the math correctly
She has biased her sample and reached an incorrect conclusion
She did not have an experimental group
She did not calculate the numbers correctly
Are you allowed to say that you proved your hypothesis correct?
yes
no
