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FL.SC.5.N.1.3

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name

Class

Date

What is the BEST reason you always repeat an experiment?

Make sure your data is consistent and accurate

Make sure your data supports your prediction

Make sure your experiment is easy to do

Make sure your experiment has lots of data

Does warm salt water or cold salt water dissolve salt faster? What would be the variable in this experiment?

Water

temperature of water

type of salt

speed of stirring

Does salt dissolve faster when stirred fast or slow? What would be the variable in this experiment?

Water

temperature of water

type of salt

speed of stirring

When doing an experiment Mrs. Blackman says you should always take careful notes. You were sick and tired of Mrs. Blackman telling you what to do so you didn't take careful notes. In the end Mrs. Blackman is always right and your experiment was a disaster. What do you think went wrong with your experiment since you didn't take careful notes?

Mrs. Blackman gave you a bad grade

You have to take detailed notes so that your experiment can be repeated

Detailed notes let others know that you did an experiment

Detailed notes are important so that you can change data

Which of these observations are scientifically testable?

Ants are more fun to watch than beetles

Trees that are tall are better than trees that are short

Science is more fun than math

Green apples don't go bad as fast as red apples

Mrs. Blackman ask the whole class to go home and do an experiment to determine what melts faster frozen salt water or frozen fresh water. You go home and take careful notes, in the morning you are talking with your friend before class and find out that you both got different answers. You said salt water melted faster and your friend said fresh water. What should you do?

Ask the rest of your classmates and go with their answers

review your procedures and see where one of you or your friend made a mistake and then repeat the experiment again

Change your answer cause your friend gets higher grades than you

Go ask Mrs. Miller

What is the best way to make sure your data is accurate in an experiment?

Do research

Do your experiment multiple times

Make a prediction

Form a conclusion

What makes an experiment different from any other scientific investigation? Select all that apply

It has one variable

It test something

It has a testable question

It gathers opinions

It gathers data

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?

A. Water only the plants in special potting soil.

A. Calculate the average plant height for each soil type.

A. Move the plants in ordinary topsoil to different locations.

Estimate the height of each plant's stem and record the estimate

10.

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.

11.

1) 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 teas instead of coffee.

Use a different thermometer.

Conduct their investigation in a colder room.

12.

1) 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.

13.

1) 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.

14.

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

15.

The students in Miss Smith's class were using catapults to launch small and large marshmallows across the room. The table shows the distances in centimeters (cm) that the marshmallows traveled.
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.

A. On average, large marshmallows go higher in the air than small marshmallows

16.

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?

A. Ask her neighbors to cut their grass on the same schedule.

Study other neighborhoods to see if there are similar problems.

A. Compare the neighbors' lawn mowers to see if there are similarities.

Survey her neighbors about their mowing schedule and record the details

17.

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

A. research how a rabbit would behave in a maze

observe the behavior of both rodents in the maze

A. make conclusions about rodent behavior in the maze

18.

1) 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.

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FL.SC.5.N.1.3

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

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