Biology1st Six Weeks Test Review

What are the two kinds of variables that you need to identify in your experiments?

• Independent and dependent

• Independent and manipulated

• Dependent and responding

• We don't need to identify variables

What is the independent variable?

• The variable that is not changed

• The variable that is being observed

• The variable that you purposely manipulate

• The variable that responds to the change

What is the dependent variable?

• The variable that does not change

• The variable that you purposely manipulate

• The variable that is kept constant on purpose

• The variable that responds to the change

When is a hypothesis created?

• Before making observations and asking questions

• After the experiment is performed

• Before the experiment is performed

• After results are communicated

What is the control group?

• The group that changes

• The group that is used as a comparison

• The group that responds to the changes

• The group that wants everything their own way

Information gathered from watching a plant grow 2cm in a week is called what?

• Variables

• Data

• Hypothesis

• Theory

Science is all of the following EXCEPT:

• A way of learning about the world

• Provides explanations of the natural world

• Never changes

• Knowledge gained through studies

Quantitative or Qualitative? Number of eggs in a carton.

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

Quantitative or Qualitative? Smoothness of the eggs in a carton.

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

What is an observation?

• Something you measure or detect with your senses.

• The way you feel about something

• An educated guess

• A theory that has been disproved