Quiz 1: The Scientific Method

An education guess about the results of an experiment is a _____________________

• Conclusion
• Hypothesis
• Experimental Plan
• Materials List

A list of steps that tells how to complete an experiment

• Materials
• Procedure
• Conclusion
• Dependent Variable

Which of the following is NOT part of a conclusion

• A description of the results and numerical data
• A description of errors and how these errors effect the experiment
• An educated guess about the outcome of the experiment
• Suggestions to improve the experiment when it is repeated

To make sure your experimental results are reliable, you should:

• Write more than one hypothesis
• Use more than one variable
• Only do the experiment one time
• Repeat the experiment many times

After you complete your experiment, you look carefully at data.  When you do this you _____________ the data. 

• Analyze
• Conclude
• Procedure
• Hypothesis

Testing a hypothesis often involves a(n):

• answer
• experiment
• problem
• safety check

The summary at the end of an experiment that explains the results. 

• conclusion
• procedures
• materials
• responding variable

The name of the information that you get from your experiment (you organize it into charts and graphs).

• observations

  conclusion

• data

• variables

• hypothesis

Inquiry means the process of:

• asking a question

• testing an idea

• recording data

• sharing testing results

The scientific method produces reliable results.

• False
• True