Types of Scientific Investigations

Which type of investigation would have scientists collecting data about orcas while they are on the ocean?

• experiment

• simulations

• field studies

• models

During experiments, scientists write down what they see which is called...

• Hypothesis

• Observations

• Materials

• Procedure

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NGSS.3-PS2-2

A test to see if your hypothesis is correct is called ____________.

• Science

• observation

• experiment

A wildlife scientist studies the behaviors of frogs in South American rainforests. The scientist wants to study the frog behaviors in January and August and see the differences. Which type of investigation is this?

• Descriptive Investigation

• Comparative Investigation

• Experimental Investigation

Match the following types of investigations with their definitions.

• Designing a test in a controlled environment to show if there is a relationship between variables.

• Experimental Investigation

• Collecting data on different things or under different conditions to make a comparison.

• Comparative Investigation

• Collecting data to make conclusions about a natural or man-made things.

• Descriptive Investigation

A young scientist decided to test if playing different types of music to plants would make them grow differently. Rock music, hip hop music, country music, and classical music was played to different groups of plants. The plants had the same amount of soil, sunlight, and water. The young scientist measured the plants after the test.

• Descriptive Investigation

• Comparative Investigation

• Experimental Investigation

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

How are EXPERIMENTAL and OBSERVATIONAL investigation similar?

• They both require a question that can be researched, a hypothesis and procedures.

• They both require a question that can be researched, procedures and a conclusion

• They both require a hypothesis, and procedures.

Two types of scientific investigations are...(pick two answers)

• experiments

• variables

• hypothesis

• observations

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

It involves collecting data on different populations/organisms, or under different conditions.

• Experimental Investigation

• comparative investigation

• Control group

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

An EXPERIMENTAL Investigation requires Independent, dependent and

Control Variables.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4