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Do taller flowers have more petals than shorter ones? How could you find out?

Investigating - Answering Questions

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In science you ask lots of questions. Then you plan how to answer them, or draw conclusions. You might investigate by observing or looking closely at things. Or you might investigate by doing a test or an experiment. You collect results or data. But what does the data mean? In this quiz, there are some results. What do the results tell you? Can you answer the questions and draw your own conclusions?

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1 .

Sally wants to find a good material for a pillow. She tests three materials. She asks 12 people in her class to say which one is the softest. Here are her results:

Feathers - 7
Foam - 3
Wool - 2

What has Sally found out?

Everyone likes feather pillows

Most people think wool is the softest

No one likes foam pillows

Most people think feathers are the softest

Why do pillows need to be soft?

2 .

Harry asked, ‘Which has more legs, a spider or a fly?’ He looked it up. He found out that spiders have 8 legs, and flies have 6 legs. What is the answer to Harry’s question?

Spiders have 8 legs

A spider has more legs than a fly

Flies have 6 legs

A fly has more legs than a spider

Where could Harry look this up?

3 .

Ben asked, ‘Do taller flowers have more petals?’ Ben decided to measure two things about each flower. What were the two things?

The height of the flower and the number of petals

The height of the flower and the color of the petals

The height of the flower and the name of the flower

The height of the flower and the number of flowers

How did Ben measure the height of the flower?

4 .

Isaac looked at different trees. He wrote down when the buds started to grow into leaves. Here are his results:

Ash - 4th May
Beech - 17th April
Oak - 8th May
Sycamore - 28th March

What has Isaac found out about when trees make leaves?

Beech is the earliest of the four trees

Sycamore is the last of the four trees

Sycamore is the earliest of the four trees

Ash is the last of the four trees

Oak and ash come into leaf later than most other trees

5 .

Ella asked, ‘What shape is the Moon?’ Ella knows that the Moon changes shape. The Moon looks different on different days. But what shape is the Moon?

Crescent

Square

Star-shaped

Round

Have you ever seen the Man in the Moon?

6 .

Jacob looked at a tree and a wooden post. The tree grew in the spring and made new leaves. The wooden post did not grow. What has Jacob found out?

Trees have leaves

Wood can be used to make posts

The tree is alive, but the wooden post is not

Wooden posts are good for making fences

When do trees grow quickest, do you think?

7 .

Emily’s teacher asked, ‘What makes play-dough so good for making models?’ Emily said:

Because it is fun to play with

Because you can change its shape

Because it is hard

Because it is rough

What would you like to make with modeling clay?

8 .

Jamie asked, ‘Which oranges are juiciest?’ He got three different oranges. He squeezed them and measured how much juice there was. To make it a fair test, Jamie made sure that the oranges were: