Scientific Rules
A beginning explanation for a problem that also suggests a way to test the problem
What is a hypothesis?
Another term that means measured data
What is quantitative data?
The first step in the scientific process
What is forming a scientific question
Anything that occupies space and has mass
What is matter?
A force that occurs when objects are touching each other
What is contact force?
An idea that is used to explain why something is happening
What is a theory?
Another term that means descriptive data.
What is qualitative data?
The second step in the scientific process
What is conducting initial research?
Materials made of more than one kind of particle.
What is a mixture?
A force that can act on objects even when separated
What is field force?
An idea that describes why a certain event occurs.
What is a law?
The part of an experiment that will not change
The third step in the scientific process
What is stating a hypothesis?
Materials made of just one kind of particle.
What are pure substances?
A contact force that makes an object push together
What is compression force?
What is data?
The part of an experiment that could change
What is the dependent variable?
What is collecting data?
The four states of matter
A contact force from one object pushing across the other
What is friction?
A scientific rule that is usually able to be expressed as an equation.
What is a law?
What are inferences?
The fifth step in the scientific process
What is analyzing data?
What is an example of a change in state of matter?
What is evaporation, condensation, melting, freezing, sublimation, vaporization, deposition, boiling (any of these count)
A force that impacts everything on earth
What is gravity?