Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
CORDILLERA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF ABRA
BANGUED, ABRA
Bangued District
Abra High School

SUMMATIVE EXAM

Name: _________________________________________ Score: _________ Date of Examination: _________________

Section: ____________________

I. Read the following and write your answers in your answer sheet. 10. Who/what are the control groups?

1. A researcher plants three plots of sunflower seeds. She weeds
and waters the first plot every other day. She weeds and waters
the second plot every after two days. She leaves the third plot not
watered. After 16 weeks, the researcher measures the width of
each flower. What is the role of the plots of flowers in the
experiment?
11. What is a confounding variable in an experiment?
12. Why is it important to control for confounding variables in an
experiment?
13. Which of the following is an example of a potential confounding
variable?

2. Joshua thinks that if people are exposed to ultraviolet light then 14. What is the primary purpose of blocking in a Science
they are more likely to get skin cancer. He designs an experiment Investigatory Project (SIP)?
wherein sample X consisted of people who were exposed to
ultraviolet light and sample Y people were not. Which is the 15. In a SIP investigating the growth of plants, how might blocking
independent variable in the problem? be implemented?
3. These are the variables that are held constant throughout the 16. What is the purpose of replication in a Science Investigatory
experiment.
Project (SIP)?
4. A farmer wants to study whether organic fertilizer will increase
17. In a SIP investigating the effects of a new fertilizer on plant
the growth of the lettuce plants at a fast rate. He used 20 lettuce
growth, why is replication important?
plants for this experiment. He randomly chose 10 lettuce samples
treated with organic fertilizer while the remaining 10 samples are to
be treated with commercial fertilizer. The amount of water and 18. What is randomization in the context of a SIP?
sunlight are kept the same for all the sample plants. What type of
experiment design is used in the given situation? 19. In a SIP studying the effectiveness of different temperatures on
seed germination, why might randomization be used?
5. Which are the experimental units?
20. What is the key advantage of using randomization in
6. What is the purpose of keeping the same amount of water and experimental design?
sunlight for all the lettuce plants?

7. What is the primary purpose of having a group of 10 lettuce

plants treated with commercial fertilizer?

8. Gym instructress Krees wants to determine if keto diet

consumption affects blood pressure. She recruits 100 households
and randomly assigns each household to either a keto-free diet or
a keto-based diet. At the end of two months, she plans to record
the original and final blood pressures for members of each
household. What is the cause variable?

9. What is the response variable?

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