WorksheetsSC.5.N.1.1 Scientific Investigation
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 1hrs 25mins
A prediction (hypothesis) must be testable. Which prediction (hypothesis) is testable?
Blue is the best color.
Summer is nicer than fall.
Dogs are better than cats.
A beagle can jump higher than a Persian cat.
Which one of the questions below is a Testable Question?
What is gravity?
How many stars are in the sky?
Why does the Earth orbit the Sun?
What color candle burns the fastest?
Jasmine found a duck’s nest near the bushes beside the lake at the park on a Saturday. Jasmine wondered how long it will take for the eggs to hatch into ducklings.
What would be the BEST plan for Jasmine to use to find out the answer to her question?
Observe the nest the following Saturday.
Observe the nest once a day for a week.
Observe the nest twice a day for a week.
Observe the nest every day until the eggs hatch.
This map was made on Tuesday.
What are meteorologists doing when they create storm tracks such as this one?
Predicting
Testing their ideas
Explaining how a hurricane develops
Gathering information to determine the strength of a hurricane
Researchers at Florida International University surveyed people to find out how many would not evacuate if a hurricane were approaching.
In 1992, 18% would not evacuate. In 1999, 46% said they would not evacuate. How can scientists use this information?
To predict where people go when they evacuate
To explain why people choose not to evacuate
To predict how many people will not evacuate
To predict which route people will use to evacuate
The class is working with classes in other schools in Jacksonville to investigate the amount of rainfall in different parts of the city. Each class has the same type of rain gauge and the same type of data chart to use to record the rainfall each day.
What is another important step for all the classes to include in their procedure?
Put the rain gauge in a grassy area at each school.
Use the same color pen to record the rainfall data.
Put the rain gauge next to the building at each school.
Use the same schedule for measuring the amount of rainfall.
Alexander has a new type of liquid fertilizer for his house plants. He wonders what solution of fertilizer and water will make his plants grow the tallest?
What is the best way to investigate the question?
look in his gardening books
interview the local nursery owner
take a survey of people coming out of the nursery
do an experiment with different amounts of fertilizer solutions
Jane is investigating to find out if bean plants grow taller in ordinary topsoil or special potting soil over a three week period. She sets up her investigation with 10 bean plants of equal size in each type of soil.
What should Jane do each day to make sure she gets valid results?
Water only the plants in special potting soil.
Calculate the average plant height for each soil type.
Move the plants in ordinary topsoil to different locations.
Estimate the height of each plant's stem and record the estimate.
Sonya wanted to know if mowing affects the health of grass during a drought. To find out, she collected data on how often her neighbors mowed their grass.
Based on the information she collected, what is the BEST next step?
Report her findings to her neighbors.
Develop a plan to save everyone's lawns.
Stop her neighbors from mowing their lawns.
Find out if other things might be affecting the grass.
Thomas and Julie wanted to find out which material would insulate their teacher's coffee cup and keep the coffee hot for the longest period of time. They first wrapped her cup with bubble wrap and recorded the temperature of the coffee once every 15 minutes for 2 hours. They repeated the investigation, this time using newspaper instead of bubble wrap, but they got the same results for both materials.
What could they do to make sure their results are valid?
Repeat their experiment.
Use tea instead of coffee.
Use a different thermometer.
Conduct their investigation in a colder room.
Brianna's class wants to determine if boys or girls recycled more paper each day. They set up separate recycling bins in the classroom and labeled them "Boys" and "Girls." The students then placed their paper items in the right bins.
Which of the following should the students do each day before emptying the bins?
Make lists of the different types of paper in each bin.
Count and record the number of paper items recycled in each bin.
Make a list of which student recycled which paper item in each of the bins.
Record their estimate of the number of times students placed items in each bin.
Kevin wanted to find out which of his toy cars, the Corvette or the Mustang, would roll downhill faster. He made a ramp by putting several books under one end of a board so that the board was slanted. Which would be the best way for him to perform his experiment?
Roll each car down the ramp separately five times and estimate which car looked faster.
Roll both cars down the ramp together one time and see which one gets to the bottom first.
Roll each car down the ramp separately one time, and time them with the second hand on his watch.
Roll both cars down the ramp together five times and record which gets to the bottom first each time.
Jonathan and Sarah have performed an experiment and are not sure their results are valid.
What should they do to check their results?
average their data
change their lab report
perform a new experiment
repeat the same experiment
The students in Miss Smith's class were using catapults to launch small and large marshmallows across the room. The table below shows the distances in centimeters (cm) that the marshmallows traveled. Which of the following statements best describes the students' data?
Small marshmallows travel an average of 9 centimeters.
Large marshmallows travel an average of more than 20 centimeters.
On average, small marshmallows travel farther than large marshmallows.
On average, large marshmallows go higher in the air than small marshmallows.
During a recent drought, Sonya noticed some yards in her neighborhood were healthy and green, and some were mostly brown and dead. Sonya believes the difference has to do with how often her neighbors mow their grass.
What should Sonya do first to find out if she is right?
Ask her neighbors to cut their grass on the same schedule.
Study other neighborhoods to see if there are similar problems.
Compare the neighbors' lawn mowers to see if there are similarities.
Survey her neighbors about their mowing schedule and record the details.
Jordan wants to find out if a hamster can learn a maze as quickly as a mouse can. She has researched mice and hamsters and predicts which rodent she thinks will learn more quickly. What should her next step be?
analyze hamster behavior in the maze
research how a rabbit would behave in a maze
observe the behavior of both rodents in the maze
make conclusions about rodent behavior in the maze
Stephen and his classmates are going on a field trip to a nature preserve. His teacher has told the class that when they return to school, they will be required to give a report on their trip and the animals and plants they saw while walking through the preserve.
What is the BEST method Stephen can use to make sure he remembers everything he sees?
He should bring a pad and pen to write down his observations.
He should do research on the computer when he returns to class.
He should ask his classmates to help him remember what he saw.
He should look for a map of the nature preserve at the visitors' center.
