INVESTIGATING QUESTIONS
when you use your senses to notice details.
a ball of hot glowing gases.
what is a star?
anything that takes up space.
what is matter?
the ability to make make something move or change.
what is energy?
study of the natural world is called this.
what is science?
when you offer an explanation of what you observed.
what is to infer?
this gives us light and heat.
what is the sun?
measure of how warm or cold something is.
these are used to measure the loudness of sounds.
what are decibels?
the process engineers follow to solve problems.
what is the design process?
to guess if something will happen based on what you know.
what is to predict?
this tells how much a light a star gives off.
what is brightness?
this state of matter has a definitive shape.
what is a solid?
energy of motion is called this.
what is kinetic energy?
all the living and nonliving things in a place.
what is an environment?
an object used to magnify.
what is a microscope (and/or) a magnifying glass?
plants need this to survive.
what is light (and/or) water?
this state of matter only has a definite volume.
what is a liquid?
this means to take in.
what is to absorb?
anything that people make or do that changes the natural world.
what is technology?
graphs and tables help scientists to do this.
what is to interpret and display data?
this is the smallest kind of star.
what is a white dwarf?
this state of matter had no definite shape or volume.
what is a gas?
stored energy is called this.
what is potential energy?
a model used to start the design process before you build.
what is a prototype?