Pop Quiz On Joe And Pirates!

1. A kilogram is how many times greater than a milligram?

.000001

.100000

1000

1,000,000

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2. 15.9 km = ______________ mm

0.0000159

.00159

15,900

15,900,000

3. Choose the answer with the measurements ordered from largest to smallest.

15 cm; 1.5 m; 150 km; 15,000 mm

150 km; 15,000 mm; 1.5 m; 15 cm

15,000 mm; 150 km; 15 cm; 1.5 m

150 km; 1.5 m; 15 cm; 15,000 mm

4. 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?

Induction

Deduction

Intuition

None of these

5. The pirate's first hypothesis, that monkeys turn right when they bite a banana, was based upon

An experiment

A theory

Observation

None of these

6. 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?

Induction

Deduction

Intuition

None of these

7. What is the difference between an assumption and a hypothesis?

An assumption is not based on information, but is simply a guess

An assumption and a hypothesis are two words that mean the same thing

8. When the balloon that Joe found fell "up," Joe thought at first that the balloon was an "outlier." What does that mean?

That Joe must throw out his hypothesis.

Joe used the wrong method of reasoning in forming his original hypothesis.