1. Scientific Method
Practice Quiz

2. What is Science?

3. Answer:
A process through which nature is studied, discovered, and understood.
All areas of science involve posing inquiries (questions) about nature.
It is… a way of knowing!!! (YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS)

4. What is the Nature of Science?
What was the point of the Checks Lab?

5. Answer Science is never finished
Science is always changing, information is discovered over time.
New information can change everything about our prior knowledge
Peer reviews help to develop scientific information.
Communication leads to discoveries.

6. What is the Scientific Method?

7. Answer:
a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data and information is gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from that information, and the hypothesis is empirically tested, data is analyzed and a conclusion is formulated.

8. List the Steps of the Scientific Method.

9. Answer: Ask a question/state a problem. Research about that question.
Make a Hypothesis. (usually an If… Then... Statement)
Test that Hypothesis.
Collect, measure and analyze data.
Make a conclusion.
Communicate results.

10. Practice Questions…

11. Fred formed his hypothesis and has tested it. What happens next?
Collect Information
Find a problem
Make a conclusion
Record and analyze data

12. Answer:
Record and analyze data.

13. If Jimmy is ready to make a hypothesis, which of the following should he have previously completed?
Record data
Make a conclusion
Observed an event
Test a hypothesis

14. Answer:
Observed an event.

15. What is the last step in the scientific method
What is the last step in the scientific method? (It is a very important part)
Find a problem
Make a conclusion
Test a hypothesis
Form a hypothesis

16. Answer:
Make a conclusion.

17. What has to happen before a researcher can make a conclusion?
Find a problem
Form a hypothesis
Collect and analyze data
All of the above

18. Answer:
All of the Above.

19. How many variables should be changed or tested in an experiment
How many variables should be changed or tested in an experiment? And Why?
All but one of them
None of them
One of them
All of them

20. Answer:
One of them.
Why? To make sure that the data is a result of the change in the single variable.