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Test Description: Scientific inquiry

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) Explaining or interpreting the things you observe based on reasoning from what you already know is called

Ainferring Bobserving Cpredicting Dclassifying

2) Observations that deal with descriptions but not numbers are called

Aqualitative Bobjective Cquantitative Dsubjective

3) Scientific knowledge changes with

Anew evidence or new interpretations Bnew magazine articles Ccareful reading of facts Drepeated experiements

4) The last step in the Scientific method is

Aconducting experiments Breporting results Cforming a hypothesis Dgathering research

5) Which is a valid reason to reject a scientific theory?

AIt was proposed by a scientist you do not know BIt covers a topic that you do not know about CSome people disagree with it. DNew evidence contradicts it.

6) A representation of a complex object or idea is called a

Amodel Bbackground Cprojected Dinference

7) Scientists come from many different backgrounds and have many different talents

ATrue BFalse

8) Having an attitude of doubt is called

Aobjective Bcuriosity Csubjective Dskepticism

9) The _ variable is changed by the scientist, which results in change in the variable.

Adependent; independent Bindependent; dependent Csubjective; objective Dinductive; deductive

10) Trying to explain why a solar eclipse occurs is an example of

Aan experiment Bclassification Ca prediction Dscientific inquiry

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