You want to see if a heavier object falls faster than a lighter object. You drop a baseball and a marble from the same height and record the time it takes for each to hit the ground. Which question and method are you using?
Question: "Which object hits the ground first?" Method: Experiment
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To find out the most popular movie genre among her friends, Sarah sends a message to five friends asking, 'Which of these is your favorite movie genre: comedy, action, or fantasy?' This is a type of:
Poll
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You need to find out the amount of sugar in different brands of soda. Which question would you ask, and which method would you use to get the most accurate answer?
Question: "How many teaspoons of sugar are in each soda?" Method: Measurement
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To find out how tall the students in his class are, a teacher uses a measuring tape to find each student's height. This is an example of what kind of data collection?
Measurement
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lifesaver
Give 25 points!
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fairy
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fairy
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banana
Go to last place!
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A farmer wants to see if adding fertilizer makes his corn plants grow taller. Which question and method would he use to get the answer?
Question: "What is the height of the corn plants that got fertilizer versus those that didn't?" Method: Experiment
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You want to know how many cars drive past your house between 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM. Which question and method would be best?
Question: "How many cars did I count?" Method: Observation
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eraser
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magnet
Take 25 points!
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rocket
Go to first place!
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thief
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seesaw
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fairy
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rocket
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baam
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Come up with a question that could be answered by collecting experimental data.
Answers will vary.
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monster
Reset all scores!
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gift
Win 25 points!
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gift
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banana
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A chef wants to know how many people will eat a new dish she created. She offers the dish to customers and counts how many portions are sold. Which question and method is the chef using?
Question: "How many people bought the new dish?" Method: Observation
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A student wants to see if adding fertilizer to a plant will make it grow taller. They put fertilizer on one plant and no fertilizer on another, then measure both plants every day for a month. This is an example of a(n):
experiment
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A scientist watches a group of monkeys in a forest and writes down everything they do for a week. What is the scientist using to collect data?
Observation
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A student uses a thermometer to collect the temperature of the water in a pool every hour. What type of data collection is this?
Measurement
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Come up with a question that could be answered by collecting poll data.