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- 1. Multiple Choice
Lying in bed you notice that you get cold every time your brother opens the door. This is most closely associated with which step in the scientific method?
Conclusion
Making an observation
Forming a hypothesi
Developing a test
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is the difference between a question and a hypothesis
A question follows from an interesting observation and the hypothesis is an educated guess or answer to that questiony
A question is what you end up with after the test and the hypothesis is a summary of the conclusions.
A question is an assumption and the hypothesis is the answer to the assumption.
A question is the summary of data collected and the hypothesis is the interpretation of the data
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is the first step in the Scientific Method?
Test
Hypothesis
Observation
Prediction
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is the last step in the scientific method?
Hypothesis formation
Observation
Communication of results
Conclusion
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is a hypothesis?
Whatever the teacher tells you is the truth.
Your best “educated guess” of what the answer to your question will be.
An experiment
An untestable statement.
- 6. Multiple Choice
How do you come up with a good question?
From the predictions.
Assume that you know everything.
By testing the data.
By making an interesting observation.
- 7. Multiple Choice
What is a prediction?
Another word for observation.
To force a conclusion based on many data.
Just another word for a hypothesis.
What you think will be the outcome of your experiment or data collection.
- 8. Multiple Choice
How do you make a conclusion?
You look at your hypotheses and choose which one you like best
You guess what the results should be.
You keep making different tests until they show what you want to see.
You compare the data from your experimental results to the prediction they tested.
- 9. Multiple Choice
What is the difference between a prediction and a test?
A prediction is what a fortune teller gets paid for, and a test is what you give to your friends to make sure they are still your friends.
A prediction is a possible answer to the question, and a test is what you take at the end of the semester in class.
A prediction is usually a specific statement “if . . .then”, and the test is the actual experiment used to obtain data.
A prediction is what the doctors gives you in her clinic, and a test is what the weatherman gives you each evening.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Why do you usually need more than one hypothesis for a question?
Observations trick you into trying only one hypothesis.
Hypotheses always come in pairs.
A prediction always needs more than a single hypothesis.
If you reject your sole hypothesis you have nothing left.
- 11. Multiple Choice
The scientific method was developed to help scientists organize the process of solving problems.
True
False
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of these is not a step of the scientific method?
Hypothesis
Experiment
Conclusion
Plagiary
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of these words would you NOT associate with the scientific method?
Disorganized
Organized
Data
Control
- 14. Multiple Choice
A hypothesis is...
A Random Thought
An Answer
An Educated Guess
An Experiment
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which of these would be called results?
Number of Fruit Flies
Counting Fruit Flies
Seeing Fruit Flies on an Apple
Wondering Why a Fruit Fly was Born
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