Intro to Science

If your teacher asked you to make qualitative observations about the class’s pet hamster, which group of words might be used?

• mass of 3 kg, 11 cm long, age of 16 months

• mass of 3 kg, 11 cm long, cute

• long hair, white and brown colored, soft

• temperature, length, weight

You want to collect data on the taste of apples to help a farmer grow sweeter apples in his orchard.  You have your assistants describe apples as "sweet" or "tart".   This is called ____ data

• quantitative

• qualitative

• not scientific

• hypothetical

Everything we know about nature and a way to learn more about it.

• chemistry

• history

• science

• math

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An explanation that can be tested by an experiment.

• data

• experiment

• hypothesis

• observation

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The steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question.

• scientific method

• recipe

• data

• observation

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Which is NOT a step in the scientific method?

• Make observations.

• Make a theory.

• Do an experiment.

• Create a hypothesis.

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What is a scientist doing when she listens to the sounds that an elephant makes?

• making a conclusion

• making observations

• analyzing data

• making a hypothesis

When you decide whether or not the data supports the hypothesis, you are

• drawing conclusions

• forming a hypothesis

• asking questions

• making observations

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What is the first step in the scientific method?

• Ask a question

• Conclusion

• Experiment

• Observation

Something you think may be true based on an observation.

• observation

• inference

• hypothesis

• experiment

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