Study of Science
The study of the natural world.
What is science?
A testable statement that scientists make.
What is a hypothesis?
Putting things into groups or putting them in a particular order.
What is classifying and ordering?
Using encyclopedias, science articles, going to a museum, or visiting science websites.
What is research?
A model that has length and width.
What is a two-dimensional model?
This person asks questions about the natural world.
What is a scientist?
Scientists use the five senses to do this.
What is make observations?
Keeping track of observations and data and making tables, charts.
What is recording and displaying data?
This is a tool is used for looking at objects that cannot be seen with the eye alone.
What is a microscope?
This represents something real that is too big?
What is a computer model?
This is information collected by using the five senses.
What is an observation?
This is a statement that explains an observation.
What is an inference?
These are used when counting or ordering objects.
What are numbers?
This tool is used to measure force and is measured in neutons.
What is a spring scale?
This type of model has length, width, and height?
What is a three-dimensional model?
This is used to answer questions.
What is an investigation?
Scientists do this when they use evidence to evaluate a hypothesis.
What is drawing conclusions?
Scientists use tools to find, length, weight, mass, volume, or elapsed time.
What is measure?
This is a tool used to measure mass in grams.
What is a pan balance?
This is a model that represents a large object like the solar system?
What is a scale Model?
This is a fair test that is repeated multiple times.
What is an experiment?
Scientists use their observations and research to make these.
What are predictions?
This is used to determine how planets move in space.
What is time and space relationships?
Bits of information that you observe.
What is data?
This type of model uses a computer program to model an event or object?
What is a computer model?