What is Science?
The study of the origin, history, and structure of Earth.
What is Geology?
A plan for gathering, organizing, and communicating information.
What is the scientific method?
This is the straight line distance between two points.
What is length?
The ratio of vertical to horizontal change in a line graph.
What is slope?
The variable controlled by the experimenter.
What is the manipulated or independent variable?
A way of asking and answering questions about the natural world.
What is science?
A possible explanation or a proposed answer to a question.
What is a hypothesis?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
A relationship in which the ratio of two variables in constant.
What is a direct proportion?
During this, only one variable is changed while everything else is held constant.
What is a controlled experiment?
The study of matter, energy, forces, and motion.
What is Physics?
This summarizes a pattern found in nature that appears to always be true.
What is a scientific law?
The amount of space an object takes up.
What is volume?
The ratio of an object's mass to its volume.
What is density?
This is the variable that changes in response to what you change.
What is the responding or dependent variable?
The study of the composition, structure, properties, and reactions of matter.
What is Chemistry?
This is a well tested explanation for a set of observations and data.
What is a scientific theory?
This is a ratio of equivalent measurements.
What is a conversion factor?
This is the closeness of the a measurement to the actual value.
What is accuracy?
This is a representation of an object or event.
What is a model?
The use of knowledge to solve practical problems.
What is technology?
This is information you obtain through your senses.
What is an observation?
These are all the digits that are known in a measurement, plus one that is estimated.
What are significant figures?
This is how exact a measurement is or the consistency of measurements.
What is precision?
This is a way of expressing a value as the product of a number between 1 & 10 and a power of 10.
What is scientific notation?