Cause and Effect Quiz

Which of the following is NOT an example of a reverse cause-and-effect relationship?

• Number of firemen and number of fires

• Amount of coffee consumed by university students and levels of anxiety

• Leadership ability and academic achievement.

• The number of answers provided by students during class discussions and their marks.

• Increasing the force by which an object is thrown increases the distance it travels.

• Decreasing the pressure on a gas increases its volume.

Those are examples of ...

• Accidental Relationship

• Cause-and-Effect Relationship

• Common-Cause Factor

• Presumed Relationship

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

Which of the following is an example of an accidental relationship?

• Score on a geometry test, score on an algebra test

• Size of corn harvest, size of apple harvest

• Prices of butter, prices of motorcycles

• Ice cream sales, coincidental drowning deaths

Tags

CCSS.HSS.ID.C.9

Identify the most likely type of causal relationship between each of the following pairs of variables:

The number of job offers from a hospital increases at the same time as more students graduate from nursing programs at two local colleges

• Cause-and-Effect Relationship

• Common-Cause Factor

• Accidental Relationship

• Presumed Relationship

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

Which of the following is an example of a presumed relationship?

• People's level of fitness, number of adventure movies they watched

• Increase in speed of production, increase in the number of items produced

• Rate of chemical reaction, temperature

• Income, number of CDs purchased

Tags

CCSS.HSS.ID.C.9

What is the term used for a change in X variable produces a change in Y variable?

• Common-Cause Factor

• Reverse Cause-and Effect Relationship

• Accidental Relationship

• Cause-and Effect Relationship

Tags

CCSS.HSS.ID.C.9

Which of the following is NOT an example of a common-cause factor?

• Sales of cell phones, ozone levels

• The number of umbrella sales and the number of highway accidents.

• As child's weight increases so does her vocabulary.

• Increase in parking fees at the public beach, increase in local tomato harvest

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the term used for a change in Y variable produces a change in X variable?

• Cause-and Effect Relationship

• Reverse Cause-and Effect Relationship

• Presumed Relationship

• Accidental Relationship

Tags

CCSS.HSS.ID.C.9

A correlation exists between two variables, even though there is no cause-and-effect relationship. This is...

• Common-Cause Factor

• Reverse

  Cause-and-Effect Relationship

• Accidental Relationship

• Presumed Relationship

Tags

CCSS.HSS.ID.C.9

What can help remove the effect of extraneous variables in a study?

• Comparison with a control group

• Reverse Cause-and Effect Relationship

• Correlation study

• Presumed Relationship