Science Quiz Tom

Question 1

What is qualitative observation?

Answer 1

Observations that deal with descriptions

Question 2

What is quantitative observation?

Answer 2

Observations that deal with numbers or amounts

Question 3

What does natural mean?

Answer 3

Pure or untouched

Question 4

What is science?

Answer 4

a way of learning about the natural world

Question 5

Who spent countless hours studying chimpanzees?

Answer 5

Jane Goodall

Question 6

What are the 5 senses?

Answer 6

touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing

Question 7

What are the 3 skills scientists use within their observations?

Answer 7

Observing, Predicting, and Inferring

Question 8

What is it called when you use the 5 senses in an experiment?

Answer 8

Observing

Question 9

What is the root word inferring and what does the root word mean?

Answer 9

The root word of inferring is infer and it means to make a guess based on reasoning from what you already know.

Question 10

Who was Jane Goodall’s mentor?

Answer 10

Louis Leakey