qualitative and quantitative information gained by carefully identifying and describing properties using the five senses or scientific tools
What is an observation?
100
located in areas with warm temperatures; thick plant growth such as ferns and reeds; standing water causes tree trunks to spread out to provide support
What is a swamp?
100
the spinning of a planet, moon, or star around its axis
What is rotation?
100
a severe storm with lightning, thunder, heavy rain and strong winds
What is a thunderstorm?
100
conducts the electric current (flow of electricity) in a circuit
What is a wire?
200
an inference made about what will happen in the future; it is based on observation, available data, and prior knowledge; not a guess
What is a prediction?
200
moving bodies of water
What rivers and streams?
200
a tool that aids in the study of objects in outer space
What is a telescope?
200
a small, funnel-shaped cloud that comes down from a storm cloud with winds spinning at very high speeds
What is a tornado?
200
completes the circuit and allows the current to flow if closed and stops the current if open
What is the switch?
300
an explanation or interpretation of an observation based on prior experiences or facts; not final explanations of the observation
What is an inference?
300
very humid and warm areas that have an abundance of rain that leads to lush plant growth
What is a tropical rainforest?
300
determines the number of daylight hours and changes throughout the year
What is tilt?
300
a large storm that forms over warm ocean water with very strong winds that blow in a circular pattern around the center, or eye, of the storm
What is a hurricane?
300
pushes the electric current around the circuit
What is the battery?
400
the factor that is changed in an investigation; always located on the x-ais
What is a manipulated variable?
400
dry areas with extreme temperature ranges
What is a desert?
400
an imaginary straight line that runs through the planet's center upon which the Earth rotates
What is axis?
400
an instrument that measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
the object in the circuit that changes electrical energy to light energy
What is the light bulb?
500
the result or response to the manipulated variable; always located on the y-axis
What is the responding variable?
500
very cold areas where the amount of daylight varies greatly throughout the year
What are polar regions?
500
the moon's pull on Earth makes the surface level of the ocean rise and fall
What is tide?
500
an instrument that determines wind direction
What is a wind (weather) vane?
500
a circuit in which electric current goes through each device in the circuit in one sequential, complete path from the source of the current