Science Measurement and Reasoning Quiz

If you are taking measurements of the height of seedlings in an experiment, you are collecting

• qualitative data

• quantitative data

• descriptive data

You learned in elementary school that all birds have feathers. You see an animal you’ve never seen before and it has feathers, so you assume it must be a bird. This is an example of...

• the scientific method

• inductive reasoning

• deductive reasoning

The information gathered from experiments is called

• the data

• the conclusion

• the research

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You are collecting information on the number of moose in a particular location, so you put out a motion-activated game camera to capture pictures of the moose that pass. When you are finished, you tally the number of moose photographed per day. What type of information is this?

• qualitative

• quantitative

• descriptive

Which of the following is NOT part of the peer-review process?

• Sharing conclusions with peers.

• Peers checking the experimental procedures for flaws.

• Peers analyzing the possible ethical impacts of the conclusions.

You just came back from the grocery store and realized you don’t have the eggs you put in your cart. Which of the following is an inference?

• You saw the eggs in your cart at the store.

• You left the eggs at the store cash register.

• You paid for the eggs with a credit card.

The scientist that first disproved spontaneous generation was

• Louis Pasteur

• Francesco Redi

• Charles Darwin

The theory that all living things arise from other living things is called

• biogenesis.

• the scientific method.

• spontaneous generation.

In the scientific experiment using meat and flies, why was one of the jars covered with gauze? Choose all that apply.

• to prevent other insects from entering the jar

• to allow air but not flies to enter the jar

• to disprove that flies came from the air

What is the independent variable in an experiment?

• The part of the experiment that you are measuring

• The part of the experiment that you are changing

• The part of the experiment that you can’t control