Scientific Method
The Study Of
Measurement Terms
Accurate Measurement
Matter/Element Review
100
The steps you follow to perform an experiment
What is the procedure ?
100
Plant life, its structure and functions
What is botany?
100
The official system of measurement used in almost every other country in the world, except for the U.S.
What is the metric system?
100
A kilometer is equal to this many meters
What is 1000?
100
The smallest piece of matter that can still be identified as that matter
What is an atom ?
200
You use your senses to make these
What are observations ?
200
Animals, including mammals, birds, and reptiles
What is zoology ?
200
The measure of gravity’s pull on you
What is your weight?
200
The freezing and boiling points of water in degrees Celsius
What is 0 and 100 degrees ?
200
An atom’s atomic number is also the number of these in its nucleus
What are protons ?
300
The information you record is called this
What is data ?
300
The planet Earth; the materials it is made of including rocks and minerals, and the processes that act on those materials
What is geology ?
300
The amount of space taken up by an object
What is volume?
300
You read the bottom of this, when you read a graduated cylinder
What is the meniscus?
300
A chart that shows all known elements and their properties
What is the periodic table ?
400
An educated guess about what you think may happen, or why something happens
What is a hypothesis ?
400
The elements, compounds they form, and reactions they undergo
What is chemistry ?
400
We measure temperature in these units
What are degrees?
400
You would weigh this fraction of your Earth weight on the moon
What is 1/6 (one sixth) ?
400
Any substance made with 2 or more chemically combined elements
What is a compound ?
500
The part of an experiment that you can change is called this
What is a variable ?
500
Matter and energy, including electricity and magnetism
What is physics ?
500
The amount of matter in an object
What is mass ?
500
L x W x H = this of a rectangular prism
What is the volume?
500
A substance that cannot be broken down into a simpler substance
What is an element ?
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