Nature of Science
Using one or more of your senses to gather information and take note of what occurs.
What is an observation?
All countries in the world use the metric system except…
Liberia
Myanmar
What is the USA?
The variable that is changed in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
A science tool used to see very small objects
What is a microscope?
The smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
Logical explanation of an observation that is drawn from prior knowledge or experience.
The distance between 2 points.
What is length?
The variable that is measured in an experiment.
The dependent variable.
Enlarging (making bigger) the image of something.
What is magnification?
Organisms made of one cell.
What is unicellular?
Have an amount, or number. They can often be measured with a scientific instrument.
What is a quantitative observation?
The metric system is based on this number.
What is 10?
Factors kept the same across all groups in an experiment.
What are the constants?
The part of the microscope you look into.
What is the ocular lens?
Organisms made of more than one cell.
What is multicellular?
Description without numbers (taste, smell, touch, hear, see)
What is a qualitative observation?
The amount of space an object takes up.
What is volume?
A scientist performed an experiment to determine the health effects of different vegetables on one-year old hamsters. The type of vegetables is this type of variable.
What is an independent variable?
The part of the microscope where the slides is placed.
What is the stage?
What is homeostasis?
The investigation and explanation of natural events and the new information that results from those investigations.
What is Science?
The method of measuring the volume of an irregular object.
What is water displacement?
A scientist performed an experiment to determine the health effects of different vegetables on one-year old hamsters. The effect on the hamsters is this type of variable.
What is a dependent variable?
The part of the microscope that holds the objective lenses in place.
The nosepiece.
A change in the environment - can be internal, such as hunger/thirst, or external, such as temperature.
What is a stimulus?