Scientific Method & Lab Toolsal
This is something you notice using your senses or measuring tools.
What is an observation?
reaking rock into smaller pieces without changing what it’s made of is __________ weathering.
What is physical weathering?
Water vapor turning into liquid water droplets is __________.
What is condensation?
The amount of space an object takes up is its __________.
What is volume?
A push or a pull is a __________.
What is a force?
The “control center” of the cell that contains DNA is the __________.
What is the nucleus?
This is a testable statement you can investigate with data.
What is a hypothesis?
Moving sediment by water, wind, ice, or gravity is called __________.
What is erosion?
The main source of energy that drives the water cycle is the __________.
What is the Sun?
Mass per unit volume is called __________. How much matter is taking up the space.
What is density?
Speed is distance divided by __________.
What is time?
The cell structure that controls what enters and leaves the cell is the __________.
What is the cell membrane?
This is the variable you change on purpose in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
When a river slows down and drops sediment, that process is called __________.
What is deposition?
The instrument that measures air pressure is a __________.
What is a barometer?
A change that creates a new substance is a __________ change.
What is a chemical change?
If forces are equal and opposite, the net force is __________ and motion won’t change.
What is zero?
In plant cells, the organelle that captures sunlight to make sugar is the __________.
What is the chloroplast?
This is the variable you measure or observe for results.
What is the dependent variable?
A fan-shaped landform built where a river meets an океan, gulf, or lake is a __________.
What is a delta?
Air masses that form over warm ocean water are typically __________ (warm/cold) and __________ (humid/dry).
What are warm and humid?
Energy stored due to position (like a book on a shelf) is __________ energy.
What is potential energy?
The force that pulls objects toward Earth is __________.
What is gravity?
Maintaining a stable internal environment (like body temperature) is called __________.
What is homeostasis?
What is replicable (or repeatable)?
When other scientists can repeat your investigation and get similar results, your work is __________.
Florida is known for this landform hazard caused when limestone dissolves and the ground collapses.
What is a sinkhole?
In Florida, afternoon thunderstorms often happen because warm air rises rapidly; that rising motion is called __________.
What is convection?
Heat transfer by the movement of fluids (liquids/gases) is called __________.
What is convection?
According to Newton’s Second Law, force increases when either ____________ or acceleration increases.
What is mass?
This body system carries oxygen and nutrients to cells and removes carbon dioxide and wastes.
What is the circulatory system (cardiovascular system)?
Name the 7 stems of the scientific method in order
Observation
Question
Hypothesis
Experiment
Collect data
Conclusion
Share results.
Break it
Take it
Drop it
Weathering
Erosion
Deposition
Name 6 parts of the water cycle
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Run off
Percolation
Transpiration
When you are driving in a car and it stops quickly, what force is making you continue forward into your seatbelt.
Inertia
A student pushes a 10 N box to the right while friction pushes 4 N left. The net force is __________ N to the __________.
What is 6 N to the right?
A cell needs to release energy from food molecules for the cell’s activities. The organelle most responsible is the __________.
What is the mitochondrion?