WorksheetsLiving Environment Vocab Contest #1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which of the following words means "a scientific procedure undertaken to test a hypothesis"?
experiment
phenomenon
variable
hypothesis
Which of these words means "an event or situation that can be observed to exist"?
experiment
phenomenon
variable
hypothesis
Which of these words means "a proposed explanation for a phenomenon based on initial observation"?
experiment
phenomenon
variable
hypothesis
Which of the following sequences is the correct procedure for the scientific method
Observation, Question, Research, Hypothesis, Experimentation, Drawing conclusions, Communicating results
Observe, Hypothesis, Guess, Evidence, ???, Profit
Hypothesis, Experiment, Research, Question, Observation, Communicating results, Drawing conclusions
Experiment, Hypothesis, Observation, Research, Question, Communicating results, Drawing conclusions
Research, Question, Hypothesis, Preheat oven, Mix dry ingredients, Blend on high, Milk, Bread, Eggs, Sort to-do lists
Which of these were the two competing theories for how diseases spread before the discovery of microorganisms?
parthenogenesis
transmutation
miasma theory
contagion theory
string theory
Which of the following could be defined as "the science of preventing the spread of diseases in a community”?
Hygiene
Cholera
Public health
Sanitation
Healthcare
The extent to which the findings of repeated experiments, conducted under identical or similar conditions, agree with one another
Experimentation
Hypothesis
Veracity
Reliability
_______ is when the experiment correctly tests the hypothesis following scientific procedure
Reliability
Validity
Accuracy
Variable
Which of these images best represents an observational study?
Which of these images best represents a controlled experiment?
In a controlled experiment, which of the following is the term used for the participants being exposed to baseline, usual conditions?
experimental group
variable group
sample group
control group
In a controlled experiment, which of the following is the term used for the participants whose testing involves the application of an independent variable?
experimental group
variable group
sample group
control group
Which of these is the element of an experiment that a scientist would change in order to measure the result?
independent variable
hypothesis
controlled variable
constant
Which of these is the element of an experiment that a scientist would measure for change after conducting an experiment?
hypothesis
dependent variable
controlled variable
constant
The number of participants in an experiment
control group
theory
sample size
observational study
phenomenon
