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EA Science NBPTS Component 1 - C

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Used to infer what is happening to the general population

a)

Mean

b)

Statistics

c)

Chi-Square

d)

Central Tendencies

2.

Descriptive statistics allows for researchers to describe and quantify difference between data sets

a)

Mean

b)

Statistics

c)

Central Tendencies

d)

Chi-Square

3.

What are the central tendencies?

(a)  

4.

The average of the data set

a)

Mean

b)

Median

c)

Mode

d)

Range

5.

Students in a biology class planted five tomato seeds in separate containers. They exposed the seeds to an artificial light source for twenty days. At the end of the twenty days, the students measured the height of the tomato plant that grew from those seeds. The data is shown below. What is the mean of the data?

(a)  

6.

The middle number in a range of data points. Useful in data sets that have measurements with extreme values or abnormal distribution

a)

Mean

b)

Median

c)

Mode

d)

Range

7.

A group of Labrador retrievers is training for the police academy. One tests is the "sniff" test, where police officers time how long it takes the dogs to find a scent. They collected the data on a group of nine dogs. The data is in the table below. What is the median?

(a)  

8.

The value that appears most often in a data set.

a)

Mean

b)

Median

c)

Mode

d)

Range

9.

The measure of how far a data set diverges from the central tendency.

a)

Mean

b)

Range

c)

Standard Deviation

d)

Variability

10.

Variability is measured by _____ & _____.

a)

Mean

b)

Range

c)

Standard Deviation

d)

Chi-Square

11.

The difference between the largest and smallest values.

a)

Mean

b)

Range

c)

Standard Deviation

d)

Variability

12.

Larger range will have _____ variability and smaller range will have _____ variability.

a)

greater, less

b)

greater, greater

c)

less, greater

d)

less, less

13.

Referencing the tomato plants data from earlier, what is the range?

(a)  

14.

A measure of how spread out the data is from the mean.

a)

Variability

b)

Standard deviation

c)

Range

d)

Mean

15.

Low standard deviation is _____ to the mean and _____ variable is likely causing the changes.

a)

Farther, Independent

b)

Farther, Other

c)

Closer, Independent

d)

Closer, Other

16.

High standard deviation is _____ from the mean and _____ variable is likely causing the changes.

a)

Farther, Independent

b)

Farther, Other

c)

Closer, Independent

d)

Closer, Other

17.

Label the graphs as low and high standard deviation.

18.

Add in the percentages for each standard deviation.

19.

Data from tomato plant experiment earlier. Calculate the standard deviation.

(a)  

20.

Data from tomato plant experiment earlier. Calculate two standard deviations. What does this mean?

(a)  

21.

Used to determine the precision and confidence in the mean value and usually given as +/- 2 SE (How well does the mean sample represent the true mean of the population)

a)

Standard Error of the Mean

b)

Mean

c)

Standard Deviation

d)

Range

22.

Low standard error equals _____ in confidence

a)

Decrease

b)

Increase

23.

Data from tomato plant experiment earlier. Calculate the standard error of the mean.

(a)  

24.

Standard error can be graphed as _____.

a)

Error Bars

b)

Bar Graph

c)

Standard Deviation Bars

d)

Line Graph

25.

If error bars overlap, the difference _____ significant.

a)

is Not

b)

May Be

26.

If error bars do not overlap, the difference _____ significant.

a)

Not

b)

May Be

27.

The differences in the graph:

a)

are not significant

b)

are significant