Motion and Matter: What Scientists Do

Scientists are men and women who answer questions about the natural world.

• True

• False

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Some scientists answer questions by making careful _______ in the field.

• questions

• observations

• decisions

• predictions

What do scientists do to better understand the world?

• They find a problem and then try to solve it.

• They do research to find an answer without experiments.

• They make a hypothesis and hope it's true.

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How do scientists do research?

• Studying or using reference materials

• Asking their neighbor what they think

• Writing what they believe is true

How are observations made?

• With your senses (hear, smell, taste, touch, see)

• With lab tools (microscope, ruler, hand lens)

• Both of them are correct

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NGSS.K-ESS2-1

Observations may lead scientists to ask new questions.

• True

• False

When you added more magnets during the experiment, the magnetic field became ______.

• stronger

• weaker

• higher

• lower

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NGSS.MS-PS2-3

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

When you tell what you think is going to happen, you are _____.

• experimenting

• typing

• answering

• predicting

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Scientists _______.

• observe and experiment

• ask and answer questions

• collect and review data

• All of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Scientists use the data they collect from experiments and field observations to look for ______.

• magnets

• details

• patterns

• clues

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1