This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Research > Scientific Inquiry – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Scientific Inquiry Quiz 3 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the third step of the scientific method? A) Make an observation. B) Make a hypothesis. C) Analyze the results. D) Ask a question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make a hypothesis. 2. What is a constant? A) The thing we are testing. B) The normal situation. C) The thing we keep the same for every part of the experiment. D) The thing we measure in the end. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The thing we keep the same for every part of the experiment. 3. Repetition of an experiment A) Repeated trial. B) Bias. C) Replication. D) Scientific explanation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repeated trial. 4. What is a constant variable for the hypothesis:If ice melts in salt & fresh water, then it will melt faster in salt water. A) The melt Time. B) The amount of salt. C) The temperature of the water. D) The fresh water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The temperature of the water. 5. Facts, figures, and other evidence collected during a scientific investigation A) Skepticism. B) Objective reasoning. C) Subjective reasoning. D) Data. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Data. 6. In a controlled experiment, how many independent variables can be worked with at a time? A) One. B) None. C) Two or more. D) How ever many makes sense. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One. 7. Mr. Southworth wrote down how many students received Bark Awards so he would have ..... A) Predictions. B) Quantitative Observations. C) Inferences. D) Qualitative Observations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quantitative Observations. 8. In an experiment, what is not tested and is used as a comparison? A) Independent Variable. B) Control. C) Dependent Variable. D) Constant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Control. 9. What does CER stands for? A) Claim, Evidence, and Regulating. B) Claim, Evaluation, Reasoning. C) Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning. D) Claim, Evaluation, Regulating. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning. 10. What is the correct conversion?83.32 grams = ..... kilograms A) 0.08332 kilograms. B) 8.332 kilograms. C) 833.2 kilograms. D) 0.8332 kilograms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 0.08332 kilograms. 11. What variable "RESPONDS to a change" in an experiment? A) Independent. B) Control. C) Intervals. D) Dependent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dependent. 12. "I predict that Ice will melt faster in salt water." , would make a good A) Question. B) Hypothesis. C) Conclusion. D) Analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothesis. 13. Ana error in the design of an experiment A) Bias. B) Replication. C) Repeated trial. D) Scientific explanation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bias. 14. Decide what the results mean and communicate that info with others! A) Test. B) Research. C) Conclusion. D) Hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conclusion. 15. An educated guess about what you think will happen in your experiment. A) Conclusion. B) Hypothesis. C) Data. D) Results. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypothesis. 16. The study of storm patterns: A) Astronomy. B) Meteorology. C) Oceanography. D) Geology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meteorology. 17. "Ice will melt faster in salt water." , would make a good A) Hypothesis. B) Analysis. C) Question. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypothesis. 18. How do different colored lights affect plant growth?What is the Independent Variable? A) Amount of Light. B) Plant Growth. C) Different Colored Lights. D) Blue Light. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Different Colored Lights. 19. 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 ..... A) The amount of sunlight. B) The type of plant. C) The type of liquid. D) The type of music. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The type of liquid. 20. What are factors that do NOT change during the experiment? A) Constants. B) Experimental Group. C) Participants. D) Control Group. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Constants. 21. An attempt by a different group of scientist to conduct the same experiment A) Subjective reasoning. B) Data. C) Repeated trial. D) Replication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Replication. 22. Which of these is a qual itative observation? A) The boy is 5 feet tall. B) There are six birds in the tree. C) The birds are tiny. D) There are more blue birds than black birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The birds are tiny. 23. When you explain or interpret things that you observe, you are A) Predicting. B) Classifying. C) Inferring. D) Observing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inferring. 24. Products will form faster if ..... A) The particle size of the reactants are larger. B) Temperature is decreased. C) Concentration of the reactants are increased. D) The reaction is not stirred. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concentration of the reactants are increased. 25. Four light sticks are placed in water baths of varying temperatures. At which temperature would the light stick glow the brightest? A) 40$^ \circ$ C. B) 0$^ \circ$ C. C) 20$^ \circ$ C. D) 30$^ \circ$ C. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 40$^ \circ$ C. 26. In a(n) ..... a scientist determines how one particular variable affects the outcome of the experiment. A) Hypothesis. B) Data. C) Controlled experiment. D) Variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Controlled experiment. 27. A summary of what you have learned from a scientific experiment is called a(n) ..... A) Answer. B) Result. C) Hypothesis. D) Conclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conclusion. 28. What is a statement or conclusion that answers the original question/problem? A) Evidence. B) Reasoning. C) Communicating. D) Claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Claim. 29. This variable in an experiment is the one being changed by the scientist. A) Data. B) Control group. C) Dependent variable. D) Independent variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Independent variable. 30. Statement:How does the amount of light affect bacteria growth in a pond? Question:Determine a constant in this experiment. A) Amount of light. B) Pond. C) Amount of bacteria. D) None of above. 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