Skills and testing

Quantitate results involve:

• Numbers

• Words

• Both

• Neither

When describing what happens during an experiment you could document:

• Colour

• Shape

• If the object moves

• All of the above

A meniscus is:

• The curve seen at the top of a liquid

• Rate at which a measuring cylinder is filled

• The curve seen at the top or bottom of a liquid

• The curve seen at the bottom of a liquid

A parallax error:

• Calculating answers incorrectly

• Occurs when you don't look square on to a measuring instrument

• An error only made by a scientist

• An accident with filling up measuring equipment

Qualitative data includes

• Words

• Numbers

• Words and numbers

• None of the above

Which statement about inferring is incorrect

• Can only be one inference made from one observation

• Is an explanation of an observation

• Can be wrong

• Inferences and observations are not the same

Data can be recorded as either:

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

• A video

• All of the above

An observation is something you find out using your

• Gut feeling

• Smell

• Senses

• Touch

You went to the gym for the first time in 6 months. The way you described what you felt afterwards is an example of ________________ data

• Exact

• Qualitative

• Visual

• Quantitative

Miss M went on a hike in a forest full of trees and bushes. As she turned the corner, she jumped. One student said it was because she saw a snake. A second student said it was because she tripped over a rock. These are both ______________.

• Inferences

• Predictions

• Observations

• Quantitative data