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(owens) Standard 1-Biology

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Research question: does the distance a person kicks a soccer ball effect how well they will do on their math test.  What is the dependent variable?
a)
How far they kick the soccer ball
b)
who the person is
c)
how well they do on the math test
d)
Type of soccer ball.
2.
When experimenting with the growth of a plant, a scientist uses three (of the same type of) plants, two different fertilizers, equal light, and equal water. What type of variable is the fertilizer?
a)
Dependent
b)
Independent
c)
Control
d)
Compound
3.
Research Question: Does the type of gasoline put in a car effect how fast the car can drive. What is the independent variable?
a)
Type of gasoline
b)
which car the gas is put into
c)
how fast the car can drive
d)
how much gas is put into the car
4.
An experiment is performed on plants to see how different liquids affect plant growth. Each plant in the experiment is given a different liquid; water, apple juice, or milk. Each plant has the same amount of soil, sunlight, and listens to the same music. In this investigation, what is the dependent variable?
a)
Type of plant
b)
Water, apple juice, milk
c)
Plant growth
d)
Color of the plant's leaves
5.
Maria wants to know if birds prefer to eat in one place over another. She makes three feeders out of 2-liter bottles and paints all of them red. She fills each of the feeders with the same amount of mixed birdseed, and plans to keep the feeders out for 10 days before measuring how much seed is eaten from each feeder. She puts each of the feeders in her back yard: one feeder in a large dead tree, another feeder she sits on the dog house, and the last she sits in a small bushy tree.
What is the dependent variable?
a)
Length of the birdfeeders
b)
Amount of time feeders are outside
c)
Amount of seed eaten
d)
Location the feeders are put in.
6.
What is a factor that is measured for change in an experiment?
a)
control
b)
constant
c)
independent variable
d)
dependent variable
7.

How much water does a plant need to grow?

Which are the constant variables?

a)

The type of plant

b)

How much water you use

c)

Location of plant

d)

How much the plant grows

e)

How long you grow the plant

8.

Accuracy is

a)

A measure of how exact a number is.

b)

A measure of how precise a number is.

c)

A measure of how close a number is to its true value.

d)

Based on the number of significant figures

9.

A student measured the mass of a piece of marble and recorded the results in the table below.


The actual value of the mass of the marble is 35.0 g.


With respect to accuracy and precision, the above results are ___________.

a)

accurate and precise

b)

accurate and imprecise

c)

inaccurate and precise

d)

inaccurate and imprecise

10.

Two students used a digital balance to measure the mass of a solid sample.

Each student performed three trials as shown in the table below.

**The actual mass of the solid sample is 6.25g.


Which students data showed HIGH precision

a)

Student 1

b)

Student 2

c)

Both students (both are precise)

d)

Neither student (no one was precise)

11.

Four students measured the mass of a 5.43 g block of metal three times.


Which student had the greatest precision and greatest accuracy?

a)

Student W

b)

Student X

c)

Student Y

d)

Student Z

12.
If a lab fire erupts, immediately:
a)
 A. Notify (or tell) your teacher
b)
B. Run and scream
c)
C. Throw water at the fire
d)
 D. Open the windows
13.
You are working in the lab using glassware. Your partner drops a glass beaker and it shatters. A piece of glass gets in his eyes. What should he have been wearing?
a)
A. Gloves
b)
B. Sun glasses
c)
C. Safety Goggles
d)
 D. A lab aporn
14.
You are in lab and your partner accidentally gets their hair stuck in a triple beam balance. What should have your partner done?
a)
  A. Worn a hat in class
b)
 B. Skipped class
c)
 C. Got a hair cut
d)
D. Tied/pulled their hair back
15.
If you see a science experiment set up in the classroom...
a)
do not touch anything until instructed.
b)
immediately begin working on the lab.
c)
go and check all equipment.
d)
walk around and check each station.
16.
Horseplay or practical jokes in the laboratory are...
a)
always against the rules.
b)
okay.
c)
not dangerous.
d)
okay if you are working alone.
17.
You are heating a substance in a test tube. Always point the open end of the tube...
a)
away from all people.
b)
toward another classmate.
c)
toward your lab partner.
d)
toward yourself.