SCIENCE 7 For numbers 14-16, refer to the given situation below:

Tiffany wants to know the effect of eating sugary snacks on

performance in PE class. She decides to set up an experiment to find
FIRST GRADING out.
Long Quiz 1 14. Which of the following groups of individuals would be in the
control group?
Name: ____________________________________ A. Students who take a PE class at their school.
Section: ____________ Date: ______________
B. Students who take a PE class and who will not be
Avoid erasures. Erasures and alterations means wrong. eating sugary snacks before PE class.
I.Choose the letter of the correct answer.
C. Students who take a PE class and who will be
1. Which science process skill involves using your five senses to
eating sugary snacks before PE class.
describe what is seen, heard, felt, smelt, and tasted?
D. Students taking any class at school eating any
A. Inferring B. Predicting
foods.
C. Measuring D. Observing
15. Which of the following would be the dependent variable in the
2. Which science process skill is an explanation of observations?
experiment?
A. Inferring B. Predicting
A. Eating sugary snacks
C. Measuring D. Observing
B. Eating food
3. Which science process skill uses numbers to describe an object?
C.PE class performance
A. Inferring B. Predicting
D. Sports performance
C. Experimenting D. Measuring
16. Which of the following would be the independent variable in the
4. Which science process skill involves making up categories or
experiment?
grouping things together?
A. Eating sugary snacks
A. Experimenting B. Measuring
B. Eating food
C. Classifying D. Analyzing Data
C. PE class performance
5. Which science process skill uses a test under controlled
D. Sports performance
conditions?
17. Some students attend the town fiesta from their locality.
A. Measuring B. Experimenting
Eventually, they all suffered from stomach pain and food poisoning.
C. Collecting Information D. Inferring
Which part of an investigation would you apply?
6. Which science process skill involves sharing ideas through talking
a. identify the problem
and listening, drawing and labelling pictures, graphs, etc.?
b. formulate a hypothesis
A. Predicting B. Experimenting
c. test the hypothesis
C. Measuring D. Communicating
d. formulate a conclusion
7. Which science process skill involves guessing what might happen
18. In an experiment, the one variable that is changed is called the
in the future?
__________.
A. Inferring B. Experimenting
A) experimental variable
C. Predicting D. Communicating
B) dependent variable
8. How is a hypothesis tested?
C) controlled variable
A. by using the hypothesis to make predictions about a
D) independent variable
system
B. by comparing observations in nature with predictions
II. Enumerate the steps in Scientific Method.
C. by doing a series of experiments and looking for results
1. ____________________________________________
D. all of the above
2. ____________________________________________
9. Which of the following statements would be true of the scientific
3. ____________________________________________
method?
4. ____________________________________________
A. People structure their lives in the principle of scientific
5. ____________________________________________
method.
6. ____________________________________________
B. The scientific method is a continuous process by which
7.____________________________________________
people learn about his world.
C. Scientists report the experimental results but not the
experimental design.
D. When the results of the experiment do not fit the
hypothesis, a scientist may discard the results
and stop the experiment.
10. Suppose your mother sent you to the market to buy fruits and
vegetables. How would you choose good quality fruits and
vegetables?
A. Ask the vendor to choose it for you.
B. Examine the fruit if it is free from insect bites and the
smell of insecticides.
C. Just get any kind and pay right away.
D. Tell your mother that you do not know how to buy
good quality of fruits and vegetables.
11. When scientists wish to communicate the results of their
research, they are most likely to do which of the following?
A. Immediately repeat the research.
B. Call a press conference.
C. Write a concise report with complete results and
proofs to the experiments performed and formulate conclusions.
D. Sell their findings to other researchers.
12. During an experiment about a coin and feather that were
dropped at the same time, it was found that the coin reached the
ground first. One student said, “Maybe the coin is heavier than the
feather”. What do you call this kind of statement?
A. a problem C. a hypothesis
B. an interpretation D. a conclusion
13. Which of the following is NOT considered a step of the scientific
method?
A. Observing and stating the problem
B. Recording and analyzing data
C. Converting all measurements to metric units
D. Testing the hypothesis