Scientific Method Quiz

1. Which comes first in the process of the Scientific Method: Identifying the problem (posing the question) or forming a hypothesis?

2. What is used to test a hypothesis?
3. Which term is defined by “an educated guess; a tentative assumption made in order to draw to and test its logical or empirical consequences”?

4. Scientists record their processes during experimentation carefully so that the experiment is __________ by other scientists. (word choices: attacked, respected, repeatable, awarded)
5. _________________ allows experiments to be reproduced and allows statistical measures of the reliability of the data. (word choices: the internet, full disclosure, copy machine, hypothesis)