Pop Quiz On Joe And Pirates!
- 1.Quick check....
- 2.When the balloon that Joe found fell "up," Joe thought at first that the balloon was an "outlier." What does that mean?
- A.
That Joe must throw out his hypothesis.
- B.
That the balloon did not behave as it should, but there was some mistake and that the next balloon will most likely fall down like it is supposed to.
- C.
Joe used the wrong method of reasoning in forming his original hypothesis.
- 3.Joe noticed that when he dropped a rock, it fell down. He noticed that EVERY TIME he dropped a rock, it fell down. He then noticed when he dropped a pine cone, a stick, a cat...they all fell DOWN. He created a hypothesis: When you drop something, it falls down. What kind of reasoning did Joe use to arrive at this hypothesis?
- A.
Induction
- B.
Deduction
- C.
Intuition
- D.
None of these
- 4.As Joe ran around testing his hypothesis by dropping all sorts of things, what kind of reasoning was he using in predicting that each new object would also fall down?
- A.
Induction
- B.
Deduction
- C.
Intuition
- D.
None of these
- 5.What is the difference between an assumption and a hypothesis?
- A.
An assumption is not based on information, but is simply a guess
- B.
An assumption and a hypothesis are two words that mean the same thing
- C.
Both an assumption and a hypothesis are based upon prior experience or knowledge, yet one accepts a hypothesis as true and an assumption as false
- D.
Both an assumption and a hypothesis are based upon prior experience or knowledge, yet one accepts an assumption as true without testing, but science requires a hypothesis to be tested for accuracy
- 6.The pirate's first hypothesis, that monkeys turn right when they bite a banana, was based upon
- A.
An experiment
- B.
A theory
- C.
Observation
- D.
None of these
- 7.A kilogram is how many times greater than a milligram?
- A.
.000001
- B.
.100000
- C.
1000
- D.
1,000,000
- 8.15.9 km = ______________ mm
- A.
0.0000159
- B.
.00159
- C.
15,900
- D.
15,900,000
- 9.Choose the answer with the measurements ordered from largest to smallest.
- A.
15 cm; 1.5 m; 150 km; 15,000 mm
- B.
150 km; 15,000 mm; 1.5 m; 15 cm
- C.
15,000 mm; 150 km; 15 cm; 1.5 m
- D.
150 km; 1.5 m; 15 cm; 15,000 mm
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