Scientific Skills and Processes
This means using your senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell) to gather information about something.
What is making an observation?
This means to tell about something using its properties.
What is describe?
A state of matter with definite shape and volume.
What is a solid?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
What are the inner planets or the terrestrial planets?
The force of attraction between two objects.
What is gravity?
This is the type of information you can measure or count (numbers).
What is quantitative?
This is a measure of how fast particles are moving.
What is temperature?
A change in some properties of matter that does not result in a new kind of matter.
What is a physical change in matter?
A curved path of an object around a star, planet, or moon.
What is an orbit?
An imaginary line that runs through the center of an object.
What is an axis?
This is a statement that explains what you think will happen in an experiment and why.
What is a hypothesis?
This is the smallest particle of a compound that retains the properties of that compound.
What is a molecule?
A scientific law stating that in any physical or chemical change, the total mass does not change.
What is the law of conservation of matter?
These are chunks of ice and dust or rock that have stretched out orbits around the sun and a tail caused by ice burning off as it passes the sun.
What is a a comet?
Dark area or shape made when an object blocks a source of light.
What is a shadow?
This is the one thing you change on purpose in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
Molecules in this state of matter can easily move and slide past each other.
What is a liquid?
This is different materials are combined but each keeps its own properties.
What is a mixture?
This is a ball of very hot matter that gives off heat and light energy.
What is a star?
The movement of one object around another in space.
What is a revolution?
This is the part of an experiment that does not get changed, so you can compare it to the part you do change.
What is the control group?
By adding or removing heat.
How do you change a substance from one state of matter to another?
This is a change that produces one or more new substances.
What is a chemical change?
This is the distance light travels in one year.
What is a lightyear?
This is caused by the tilt of Earth on its axis and its position in its revolution around the Sun.
What is the changing seasons and/or amount of daylight?