Scientific Method and Experimental Scenarios

The name of the information that you get from your experiment (you organize it into charts and graphs).

• observations
  conclusion

• data

• variables

• hypothesis

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

An experiment is performed on plants to see how different liquids affect plant growth. Each plant in the experiment is given a different liquid; water, apple juice, or milk. Each plant has the same amount of soil, sunlight, and listens to the same music. In this investigation, the independent variable is ...

• The type of plant

• The amount of sunlight

• The type of music

• The type of liquid

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

What is the first step in the scientific method?

• Ask a question

• Conclusion

• No Horse Play

• Observe

What are the first two steps of the scientific method in order?

• 1, 2

• Ask a question, background research

• Ask a question, For a hypothesis

• Make a plan, Experiment

An experiment is performed on plants to see how different liquids affect plant growth. Each plant in the experiment is given a different liquid; water, apple juice, or milk. Each plant has the same amount of soil, sunlight, and listens to the same music. Which below are constants?

• same music

• same soil

• same sunlight

• All of the answers

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

You want to find out which dish soap makes the most bubbles. You add dish soap to a pan of water and use a straw to blow bubbles. Which of the following would be the control?

• Using a fan to make the bubbles

• Blow bubbles in a pan with just water, no soap.

• Make bubbles in the pan by swishing your hand back and forth

Before beginning an experiment you must first make a ____.

• Hypothesis

• Conclusion

• Procedure

• Experiment

An experiment is set up with ten pots to test the effective of fertilizer on plant growth. 5 pots have fertilizer added to the soil, 5 pots do not have fertilizer added to the soil. Each pot has 1 spider plant and 5 cups of soil. The pots are watered once a week with 1/2 cup of water. Water would be what type of variable?

• Indepedent

• Dependent

• Constant

• Water is not a variable

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

An experiment is set up with ten pots to test the effective of fertilizer on plant growth. 5 pots have fertilizer added to the soil, 5 pots do not have fertilizer added to the soil. Each pot has 1 spider plant and 5 cups of soil. The pots are watered once a week with 1/2 cup of water. Fertilizer would be what type of variable?

• Independent

• Dependent

• Constant

• Fertilizer is not a variable

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

An experiment is set up with ten pots to test the effective of fertilizer on plant growth. 5 pots have fertilizer added to the soil, 5 pots do not have fertilizer added to the soil. Each pot has 1 spider plant and 5 cups of soil. The pots are watered once a week with 1/2 cup of water. What is something that would need to be true of the spider plants?

• The plants should not be the same size

• The plants should be the same species

• The plants cannot grow with fertlizer

• The plants are the independent variable

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1