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Living Environment Vocab Contest #1

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following words means "a scientific procedure undertaken to test a hypothesis"?

a)

experiment

b)

phenomenon

c)

variable

d)

hypothesis

2.

Which of these words means "an event or situation that can be observed to exist"?

a)

experiment

b)

phenomenon

c)

variable

d)

hypothesis

3.

Which of these words means "a proposed explanation for a phenomenon based on initial observation"?

a)

experiment

b)

phenomenon

c)

variable

d)

hypothesis

4.

Which of the following sequences is the correct procedure for the scientific method

a)

Observation, Question, Research, Hypothesis, Experimentation, Drawing conclusions, Communicating results

b)

Observe, Hypothesis, Guess, Evidence, ???, Profit

c)

Hypothesis, Experiment, Research, Question, Observation, Communicating results, Drawing conclusions

d)

Experiment, Hypothesis, Observation, Research, Question, Communicating results, Drawing conclusions

e)

Research, Question, Hypothesis, Preheat oven, Mix dry ingredients, Blend on high, Milk, Bread, Eggs, Sort to-do lists

5.

Which of these were the two competing theories for how diseases spread before the discovery of microorganisms?

a)

parthenogenesis

b)

transmutation

c)

miasma theory

d)

contagion theory

e)

string theory

6.

Which of the following could be defined as "the science of preventing the spread of diseases in a community”?

a)

Hygiene

b)

Cholera

c)

Public health

d)

Sanitation

e)

Healthcare

7.

The extent to which the findings of repeated experiments, conducted under identical or similar conditions, agree with one another

a)

Experimentation

b)

Hypothesis

c)

Veracity

d)

Reliability

8.

_______ is when the experiment correctly tests the hypothesis following scientific procedure

a)

Reliability

b)

Validity

c)

Accuracy

d)

Variable

9.

Which of these images best represents an observational study?

a)
b)
10.

Which of these images best represents a controlled experiment?

a)
b)
11.

In a controlled experiment, which of the following is the term used for the participants being exposed to baseline, usual conditions?

a)

experimental group

b)

variable group

c)

sample group

d)

control group

12.

In a controlled experiment, which of the following is the term used for the participants whose testing involves the application of an independent variable?

a)

experimental group

b)

variable group

c)

sample group

d)

control group

13.

Which of these is the element of an experiment that a scientist would change in order to measure the result?

a)

independent variable

b)

hypothesis

c)

controlled variable

d)

constant

14.

Which of these is the element of an experiment that a scientist would measure for change after conducting an experiment?

a)

hypothesis

b)

dependent variable

c)

controlled variable

d)

constant

15.

The number of participants in an experiment

a)

control group

b)

theory

c)

sample size

d)

observational study

e)

phenomenon