What is Physical Science?
What 3 skills do scientists use?
Observing,Inferring,and Predicting
What is scientific inquiry?
The different ways scientists study the natural world.
What does SI mean?
System of International Units
What are three types of graphs that scientists commonly use?
Bar, line, and circle (pie) graph
A point showing the location of a piece of data
Data Point
What are the 2 main branches of Physical Science?
Chemistry and Physics
What is a hypothesis?
A possibles answer to a scientific question of explanation to a set of observation.
What is the basic unit of length?
Meter
What can graphs reveal about data?
They can reveal patterns and trends that data tables cannot.
The graph line that runs from left to right
Horizontal Axis
What is physical science?
The study of matter,energy, and the changes they undergo.
What is data?
Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observation
What is the formula for density?
Density = Mass/Volume
What is a line graph?
Line graph in which data points yield in a straight line.
Coordinate
What are the 4 concepts that help to unify physical science?
Force and Energy
The Law of Conservation
Atoms, Molecules, and the Atomic Theory
The behavior of particles of matter in solid,liquid, and gases
What is scientific law?
A statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions.
What does SI allow scientists to do?
To compare data and communicate with each other about their results
True or False: When there is no identifiable trends in a graph, it most likely means that there is no relationship between the two variables.
TRUE
The graph line that runs up and down
Vertical Axis
Give an example of a qualitative observation
Describing without numbers
What is the process of scientific inquiry?
Posing a question,developing a hypothesis,designing experiments, collecting and interpreting data,drawing conclusions and communicating ideas and results.
What is volume?
The amount of space an object takes up.
What is a nonlinear graph?
Line graph in which data points don't fall in a line.
The point where the x-axis and the y-axis cross
Origin