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How does lhe lemperoture of o tennis boll
offect the height of its bounce?
2. How does the oir pressure of o soccer boll
offecl how for il trovels when kicked?
3. Does o metol boseboll bot vibrote more
thon o wooden one?
4. How does the weight of o bowling boll
offect how mony pins lhe boll knocks
19. How does ploying video gomes offect
hond-eye coordinotion?
20. Whot is the effect of toothposte brond on
teeth-cleoning power?
Whot brond of poper lowel
obsorbent?
/i2._,Whot brond of trosh bog con withstond lhe
most weight before ripping?
down?
23. How does o light bulb's wottoge offect the
omount of heot detected obove o lighl?
5. Which increoses your heort rote more:
wolking up ond down reol stoirs or using o
24. Under whot color light do plonts grow best?
25. Which brond of mouthwosh kills the most
bocterio?
sloir-moster?
ó. How does yogo offect your flexibility?
( 7.)How does fost doncing offecl your
heort
2ó. Which brond of breolh mint losts longest?
27. How does the omounl of sugor in
homemode ice creom offect how fosl
rote?
8. How does humidity offecl the curliness of
hoir?
it freezes?
9. How does o shompoo's brond offect ihe
ln o blind toste tesl, con you telllhe
difference between nonfot, low-fot, ond
whole milk?
291 When you pour sodo out of o newly
opened sodo bottle, which produces more
fizz: regulor or diet sodo?
30. How does brond offect ketchup's flow?
strength of hoir?
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12. How does lhe fot contenl of cheese offect
its stretchiness?
,31' Given the some omount of woter, how
does pot size offect the omount of time it
tokes to boil woter?
13. How does lhe length of time thot o sodo
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How does the iemperoture of woter cffect
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is the best ploce to store homeboked cookies to keep them fresh longest?
32. Where
it lokes to freeze into ice cubes?
15. How willthe time spent chewing bubble
33. How does
gum offect its bubbles' moximum size?
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How will odding different flovors of Kool-Aid@
to woter offect the woter's boiling point?
17.
)tvhich brond of popcorn leoves the fewest
.unpopped
18. Does the flovor of geloiin offecl the
omount of lime it tokes to sel?
lhe omount of yeost offect how
high breod rises?
cereol brond stoys crunchy in milk
lhe longest?
35. Which brond of chocolote bor melts fostest
in the sun?
ae) Wnicn lype of breod turns motdy first: store/ bought or bokery breod?
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37. How does the type of
contoiner offect ice
creom,s melting time?
38. Which con support more
weight: poper or
plostic grocery bogs?
39. Does the type of qnimol
in o pet_slore
window offect the numbár
åio'áoo,. v,,,,o
ore ottrocted to the window?'
40. Does the color of o terrorium
offect o
lizord,s skin color?
4t. Does the brond of kitiy litter
offect
clumping?
42. Does listening to one type
of music lower
heorr rore more rhon óÄ.t
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43. How old does chewed gum
hove
before it stops sficking t;;Á;;;" to be
44. Which frozen dessert
melts slowest:
creom, frozen yogurt, or sorbet? ice
45. How does fhe tension
in o violin,s strings
offect its pitch?
4ó. How does the size of o
drum offect its
pitch?
47.'How. does o person,s
oge offect his or her
ftexibitity?
48. How does o person,s
oge offecf his or her
obitify to see ot night?
49. How does the omount
of oir in o bicycle,s
rires offect how tong
t tor.Ës ir.ìJ ñ1. ,"
broke?
50. How does the sjze of
o bicycle,s tires offect
how for it trovets g¡v.n ã
,p".]rå'å"Åount or
pedoting?
51. How does hoir,s curliness
offeci its strength?
52. How does color offect
o person,s mood?
53. How does the time of
doy offect
your
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body'sfemperoture?'
54. How does the iype of
music thot o person
listens to white exercising
orr..inJrinoro
he or she works out?
55' Does one type of food fi, you
up fosier thon
onother?
5ó. Which grows foster:
fingernoils or ioenoils?
57. Does gender offect
lung copocify?
58. lf you ore right_honded
or left_honded, do
you olso prefer o certoin
foot?
59. Does the surfoce
of o tennis court offect
the heishthot o tennis
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ó0. Does the time of doy
offect your flexibility?
ó1. How does oir femperoture
offect your
ftexibility?
ó2. Does o no_nome stoin remover
work just os
well os o brond nome?
ó3. Which is o better insulotor:
wool, cotton, or
down feothers?
ó4. How do vorious ski woxes
offeci the omount
of friction between the ski
onO the snow? ,
ó5. Does ploying Sudoku puzzles
improve your
performonce on other
iypes of ãrl,"rz
óó. How does shutier speed
offect the color of
o photogroph?
ó7. How con you speed up
the ripening of
lomotoes?
ó8. Whot effect does wotering
hove on how
fost o plonf grows from
o seed?
ó9. How does groviiy offecf
the direction of o
plont's growth?
70. Do oll plonts seek out
llght?
71. How does the weighi
of o poper oirplone
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offect its obitity Io fty?
72. How does o porochute,s
moteriol offect the
speed ot which it foils?
73' How does the onticipotion
of q tickre offect
you?
74. How does the weother
offect your mood?
75. Which type of sc
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d ish so oþ. n
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7ó. Which type of fruit is
more ocidic: lemons,
oronges, or wotermelon?
77. Whot type of ground loyers
limit erosion
most; sond, grovel, or soil?
78. How does the speed of
o river,s current
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riverbed?
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79. How does ihe type of
music ployed in q
store offect the number
prr"Áãås moo.
by customers?
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80. ln whot type of lighting
does q plont grow
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81. Whot difference do low_phosphorous
fertitizers hove on o lor<et
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compored with stondord
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82. How does the tyþe of seed in o
birdfeeder offect the types of birds thot
the feeder ottrocts?
83.
Whoi types of flowers ottroct the highest
number of butterflies?
84. Which brond of
pototo chips hos the
leost greose?
t02.
How does the mognificotion of
binoculors offect how for you con see?
r04. Do oll chocolote condies hove the some
melting point?
t03.
85.
How does the moteriol of o bondoge
offect its obility to stick ofter getting wet?
r05.
Do dlfferenl types of onions moke your
eyes teor up more thqn others?
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How does the time of doy offect levels of
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Which ls better of cleoning mold ond
mildew: vinegor or commerciol cleoning
ogents?
olgoe in o loke?
87. How does tire pressure offect o cor's fuel
efficiency?
88.
How does the omount of oir in o bolloon
rocket offect how for it flies?
89.
How does the type of string used in o
"con ond string" phone offect the
phone's obility to tronsmit sound?
90.
Does one cell-phone corrier get better
reception thon other corriers?
91.
Do "triple roll" toilet poper rolls reolly lost
three times os long os regulor rolls?
92. Are rooms with corpeted floors noisier or
quieter thon rooms with wooden floors?
How does humidity offect how often o
plont needs to,be wotered?
94. Con people tellthe difference between
music ployed on on MP3 ployer, CD
ployer, tope ployer, ond turntoble?
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rote?
eî. Which hos o longer life: on LED or on
incondescent light bulb?
98. ls the incidence of osthmo in o region
reloted to the oreo's level of oir
pollution?
99. How does the color of o shirt offect the
omount of heot it obsorbs?
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How does temperoiure offect the growth
of mold?
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How does the omount of doylight thot
enters your room offect how lote you
sleep?
How does the type of stuffing in o pillow
offect
its fluffiness?
Does mople syrup's "grode" offect its
flow?
r08.
Do different bronds of botteries lost
longer thon others?
t09. Which uses more woter: o shower or o
bofh?
lt0.
Which type of cup will keep o hot drink
worm longer: poper, plostic, Styrofoom,
or gloss?
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Do noturol mosquito repellonts keep
more mosquitoes owoy thon ortificiol
repellonts?
ll2.
How do gos stotions offect the soil
oround them?
lt3.
Which cleons leeth more effectively:
boking sodo or tooihposte?
il4.
Does the length of o clock's pendulum
offect its period?
Which holds holr in ploce for o longer
period of time: gel or hoirsproy?
Does listening to music while studying
offecl your performonce on o memory
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How does the time of yeor offect the
number of hours of doylighl in o 24-hour
period?
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Does o person's height offect his or her
obility to successfully moke o jump shot
in bosketboll?
lt8.
How much trosh do you keep out of o
londfill by recycling poper ond plostics?
rt9.
Which type of photos do people hold on
to longer before moking prints: digitol or
film?
120. Do mood rings occurotely predict o
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person's emotions?
o person's fovorite subject in school
influenced by gender?
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122. Does the weighi of o bosebcll
how for the boll goes when it
boi offect
123. Does the temperoture of o hockey puck
offect how for it will trovel when struck by
the stick?
124. Do girls spend more time tolking on the
phone with friends thon boys?
125. How does the iype of food dispensed in
school vending mochines offect the
eoting choices lhot kids moke throughout
the doy?
126. Which type of fertilizer helps plonts grow
loller?
127. Which hos o better chonce of survivol:
gross thot wos plonted os seed or sod?
128. ls there o correlolion belween gender
ond the number of push-ups thot o
person con do?
129. Do best friends hcve the some fovorite
color?
t30. Who buys from the "sole" rock more
often: kids or odults?
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is hit?
Are kids more likely to be influenced by
ods thot feoture other kids or by ods thot
142. Con blindfolded people
tellthe difference
between bottled woter ond lop woter?
143. ls there o relotionship between people,s
oge ond the omount of lime lhey con
hulo hoop?
144. Do objects floot better in freshwoter or in
solt
145.
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newspoper for news?
Which stoins dentures more: coffee, sodo,
or grope juice?
137. How does the temperoture of o pool,s
woter offect the speed of which o
swim foster?
t39.
Do you woke up feeling more olert when
you owoken lo on olorm clock thot
buzzes, ploys music, or ploys noture
offect people,s heort
Do some moteriols conduct heat more
thon oihers?
t48.
How does the roughness of sondpoper
its obility to smooth vorious
surfoces?
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149. How does increosing the height of o romp
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offect how for o boll rolls down the romp?
How does the strength of o mognetic field
vory with the mognet?
Con people ideniify their pet dog by ihe
sound of its bork olone?
Do people who exercise regulorly hove o
greoter lung copocity?
Con people use their sense of heoring
olone to iell opcrt o penny, nickel, dime,
ond quorter?
Do left-honded people prefer the some
school subjects os right-honded people?
Does the type of liquid in o gloss offect
the pitch of the note thol results when o
person rubs the rim of the gloss?
Does the length of o wind chime offect its
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Do people who live in rurol oreos nome
consfellotions correcfly more often thon
people who live in cities?
r58. Does weother offect sotellite-TV
reception?
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Do girls cnd boys tolk oboul the some
iopics os eoch other when they hong out
with iheir friends?
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140. Does the size of o dog determine how
high or low-pitched its bork is?
How does o person's oge offect reoction
time?
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138. Does the use of flippers help o person
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stobility?
134. Which stoys fresher longer: orgonic or
nonorgonic fruit?
t35. Does o person's oge offect whether he
or she goes to the lnternet, rodio, TV, or
woter?
146. How does coffeine
feoture odults?
132. Does the omount of time o student spends
wotching TV offect his or her grcdes?
133. Does the length of o surfboord offect its
Does your cot prefer one brond of food
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Does your dog prefer woter directly from
the foucet or top woter thot's been
refrigeroted?
How often con people occurotely tell if
someone is hoppy, sod, or mod just by
looking of the person's eyes?
How often con people correctly
determine if o person is left-honded or
right-honded just by looking ot the
person's hondwriting?
Whot melts ice the fostest: sond, cot litter,
or minerol rock solt?
Does temperoture offect the growth rote
of shoots on o pototo?
Which type of contoiner trops the most
heot: o shoebox covered in oluminum foil,
plostic wrop, or wox poper?
167. How does
offect
lhe shope of o boot's hull
its speed?
How does woter pressure vory with
deplh?
ló9. Which best helps prevent soil erosion on o
slope: plonts, rocks, or mulch?
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Do mildew-resistont shower curtoins reolly
keep mildew owoy longer thon regulor
shower curtoins?
177. Does o person's weight vory throughout
the doy?
t78. Do certoin bicycle helmets hold up better
ofter on impoct thon others?
179. Con you skote foster with in-line skotes or
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Does squinting improve your vision?
187. Do fons reolly moke you cooler or do they
just moke you feel like you're cooler?
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Do toller people toke longer strides thon
shorter people?
Con you judge depth os well using just
one eye thon using two?
Does your "hondedness" hove ony
relotion to which eye is stronger?
Does exercise increose or decreose your
energy level?
192. How does your sight offect your bolonce?
r93. Which do people prefer: o booth or o
toble toword the middle of o restouront?
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Do plonts inside o moll grow foster under
orlificiol light or under o skylighl?
Does listening to rock music moke you eot
foster thon listening to clossicol music?
Does eye color offect how well o person
sees?
Does toothposte with whitener whiten
teeth more thon regulor toothposte?
r98. Does woshing your honds reduce the
omount of bocterio on them more thon
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noturol or nylon bristles?
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fode the poper more
books or in mogozines?
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Which lightens stoins better: vinegor or
lemon juice?
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sondols?
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Do gym shoes hove more bocterio thon
172. Does sunlight
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sugor-free or regulor?
Does one brond of ontocid neutrolize
ocids fosler thon onother?
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182. Which kind of gum keeps its flovor longer:
not woshing?
Does using conditioner leove your hoir with
fewer knots thon not using conditioner?
200. Does hoir loke longer to dry when using o
hoir drier or when it dries noturolly?
199.
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Do these queslions hove onything in common?
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Do thunderstorms hoppen more often in
the ofternoon thon in the morning?
Does breod stoy fresher longer when it is
kept in the refrigerotor or on lhe counter?
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hove o slrong inieresi in thoi topic. You might
wont lo think oboul doing o science-foir proiect
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