Science Midterm Review

Collecting data is not an essential part of scientific inquiry.

• True 
• False

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

To analayze

• to look closely
• to aviod
• to estimate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

A prediction is 

• never necessary
• a fact
• a guess

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

An educated guess that can be tested is 

• a hyposthesis
• speculation
• theory

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

To infer you use

• opinions of others
• a dice roll
• prior knowledge

You use your five sense to find out about the world around you. This is called______.

• observations
• data
• conclusion
• scientific method

You are doing an experiment recording the growth of plants under different amounts of sunlight. What is the dependent variable?

• The sunlight
• The growth
• The experiment
• The amounts of photons

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

The variable that causes a change is the

• constant
• independent variable
• dependent variable
• control

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

The variable that is the result of the experiment is the 

• constant
• independent variable
• dependent variable
• control

A variable that never changes is known as a 

• constant
• independent variable
• dependent variable
• control