Elements
This symbol is used for the element oxygen.
What is O?
This is the first step in the scientific method and is a perquisite to forming hypotheses.
What is observation? OR What is being curious?
This prefix symbolizes 1/1000th of the base unit.
What is milli (m)?
How close the measurement is to the correct or accepted value.
What is accuracy?
The smallest particle of a substance that still retains the properties of that substance.
What is an atom?
This is the simplest element containing only one proton and one electron.
What is hydrogen?
This is a logical explanation for an observable phenomena but lacks and evidence to back it up.
What is a hypothesis?
This prefix symbolizes 1/100th of the base unit
What is centi (c)?
What is precision?
Atoms of this substance have identical mass size and other properties.
What is an element?
These elements might be considered snobby if they were people because they do not readily interact with other elements.
What are noble gasses?
This is a logical explanation for an observable phenomena that is supported by the results of several different experiments.
What is a theory?
1000g is equal to 1 what?
What is 1 kilogram?
This value tells you exactly how close or far your measurement is from the accepted value.
What is percent error?
The idea that matter cannot be created nor destroyed
What is the law of conservation of mass?
The symbol for gold.
What is Au?
Before a team can share their research results with the larger scientific community it must undergo this process.
What is peer review?
The reason for the creation of the SI prefix system.
What is the ability to express very large or very small numbers in a more concise way?
This system is used to write very large numbers or very small numbers in a more compact way.
What is scientific notation?
These are the 3 types of subatomic particles.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
This is a variation of an element containing extra neutrons.
What is an isotope?
This step of the scientific method is often used to simplify complex phenomena or ideas in order the aid the development of new hypotheses and experiments.
What is a model?
1 x 109 times bigger than the original unit.
What is giga?
The relationship between wavelength and frequency is an example of this. (When the wavelength is small the frequency is big and vice versa).
What is inversely proportional?
What are chemical reactions?