Scientific Method
The gathering of information using senses or with the aid of instruments.
What is observation?
A well-tested explanation of a phenomenon in the natural world.
What is a scientific theory?
Scientists report numbers and always include these with the numbers.
What are units?
The amount of matter something has.
What is mass?
The three most common types of graphs.
What are bar, circle, and line graphs?
A possible, testable explanation for one or more observations or a suggested, testable answer to a question.
What is a hypothesis?
A well-tested description of one phenomenon in the natural world that often includes mathematical terms.
What is a scientific law?
The system of standard units that scientists all around the world have agreed to use.
What is the metric system?
A U.S. dollar bill has a mass of about...
What is one gram?
Romans 1:20
What is "For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse."
An investigation in which the factors that influence the outcome are kept the same except for one- the factor being studied.
What is a controlled experiment?
An observation made using at least one of the five senses.
What is a qualitative observation?
The metric system measures length in this unit.
What is the meter?
The modern metric system is also called this.
What is SI (Système International d'Unitès) or the International System of Units)?
A mnemonic device used to quickly convert between units in the metric system.
What is KHDuDCM?
A factor that can change in an experiment.
What is a variable?
An observation of a quantity, made by counting or using an instrument like a scale, ruler, beaker, or other device.
What is a quantitative observation?
The metric system uses this unit to measure mass.
What is the kilogram?
This is the measurement of the pull of gravity on an object.
What is weight?
A branch of science that studies nonliving things.
What is physical science?
A logical conclusion drawn from observations, previous knowledge, and variable information.
What is an inference?
A body of knowledge and a system used to find that knowledge.
What is science?
The English unit used for precise measurements of mass.
What is the slug?
The metric measurement for time.
What is the second?
A person has 80kg in mass, that person's mass in grams...
What is 80,000 grams?
1kg=1,000g
The given mass in kilograms is multiplied by the conversion factor to obtain the mass in grams: