NOS vocabulary quiz

Match the following terms with their definitions:

• A procedure carried out to carefully observe the natural world that may include making systematic observations, asking questions, gathering information, analyzing data, summarizing results, drawing conclusions, and communicating results, but does not involve a hypothesis

• Experiment

• A tentative explanation that can be tested by further investigation

• Investigation

• A statement about what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence

• Prediction

• A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact

• Hypothesis

What is a possible explanation about an observation that can be tested by scientific investigation?

• Hypothesis

• Prediction

• Conclusion

• Observation

What is a statement of what will happen next in a sequence of events, identifying what might happen if a hypothesis were true?

• Hypothesis

• Conclusion

• Prediction

• Observation

What is a collection of facts or information that proves whether something is true or false?

• Hypothesis

• Scientific evidence

• Control (group)

• Scientific model

What is a part of the experiment that is not tested in order to see if the test variable truly was the cause of any change to the dependent variable?

• Hypothesis

• Scientific process

• Control (group)

• Conclusion

What is a statement that tells what an investigation or experiment showed, based upon observations and data?

• Hypothesis

• Conclusion

• Prediction

• Observation

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What is a procedure of steps carried out under controlled conditions to test a hypothesis or answer a question?

• Experiment

• Hypothesis

• Scientific model

• Observation

What is a series of steps that involve making hypotheses, then carrying out a controlled experiment with variables, collecting data, analyzing the data and stating a conclusion; systematic and logical process that scientists use to solve problems?

• Scientific model

• Scientific process

• Repetition

• Replication

What is one person conducting the exact experiment over and over and over again, getting the same or very similar results each time?

• Replication

• Scientific process

• Repetition

• Observation

What is it called when someone else (other than the original researcher) carries out an experiment exactly and gets the same results over and over again?

• Repetition

• Replication

• Scientific process

• Scientific model