Scientific & Engineering Practices Vocab Quiz

1. ____________________ is the factor that the scientist intentionally changed in order to test the hypothesis.

• Law
• Dependent Variable
• Independent Variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

2. ____________________ is how much space an object takes up; measured in liters with a graduated cylinder.

• Mass
• Volume
• Data

3. ____________________ is an educated guess made by the scientist based on what he or she thinks will happen.

• Hypothesis
• Dependent Variable
• Independent Variable

4. ____________________ is the interpretation based on experience and observations.

• Mass
• Theory
• Inference

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

5. ____________________ is how much matter is in an object, measured in grams with a scale.

• Volume
• Mass
• Quantitative Data

6. ____________________ tells us why something happens.

• Law
• Hypothesis
• Theory
• Dependent Variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

7. ____________________ is the result of what the scientist changed. It is the effect of what happened in the experiment.

• Law
• Dependent Variable
• Independent Variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

8. ____________________ tells us what will happen.

• Hypothesis
• Dependent Variable
• Independent Variable
• Law

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

9. ____________________ is the data collected using instruments and gives a number. (ex. 5mL; 7in)

• Quantitative data
• Data
• Qualitative data

10. ____________________ is an interpretation based on experience and observations.

• Quantitative data
• Inference
• Qualitative data