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Which of the following is uncommon knowledge and would, therefore, need to have its source documented? A. Earth’s atmosphere is ideal for plant and animal life. A. Earth is home to many species. Earth’s inhabitants come from a different planet

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Earth’s inhabitants come from a different planet

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Of the following types of documentation, which is verbatim? Options: Quotation, Summary, Paraphrase

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Quotation

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Which provides only the general idea of the source information? Options:  Quotation , Summary , Paraphrase

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Summary 

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One sentence that conveys an essay's central theme, main idea, purpose, topic focus, and perhaps organization.

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Thesis Statement

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If you were testing how well different dish soap cleaned grease, the independent (experimental) variable would be the: Dishes, Water, Dish Soap, Types of grease

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Dishes

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Which of the following questions would be an appropriate SCIENTIFIC question that could be tested by experimentation? Options: Which type of bread goes moldy the fastest?, Where do we go when we die?, Is it a sin to transplant pig hearts into humans?, Are llamas less valuable than camels?

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Which type of bread goes moldy the fastest?

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While PERFORMING AN EXPERIMENT, it is important to:

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record observations and measurements

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Which phrase describes a hypothesis? Options: reviewing information related to the problem, testing a factor, or variable, in an experiment, suggesting a solution to a problem after studying it carefully, performing a controlled experiment

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testing a factor, or variable, in an experiment

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"If the forest is clear-cut (cutting down all the trees in an area of forest), then it will result in drier soils because there will not be any trees to protect the soil from sunlight" is an example of:

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a hypothesis

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In order for the conclusion of a scientific experiment to be convincing, the researcher must report adequate evidence supporting or refuting the hypothesis. Scientific evidence should include the results from multiple trials of one experiment, including unexpected results.

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Results from multiple trials of one experiment, including unexpected results