Vocab
The use of scientific discoveries to solve everyday problems
What is Technology?
A mathematical statement that is universal
What is a Scientific Law?
The SI unit for temperature
What is Kelvin?
What a liter is used to measure
What is volume?
A microscope used for viewing objects that light does not pass through
What is a stereomicroscope?
Information obtained through the senses
What is Observation?
Living things grow and develop
What is a Characteristic of Life
The ratio of an object's mass to its volume
What is density?
This is how you read a triple beam balance
A microscope that projects light through an object
What is a Light Microscope
A falsifiable explanation for observations made about nature
What is a hypothesis?
Living things respond to the environment
What is a Characteristic of Life?
The measurement system based on units of 10 is
What is the SI system?
If you put an object in a cylinder, this is how you get its volume
What is measuring the volume before and after you put an object in
A Light Microscope can magnify things
What is 10x-1000x
A series of steps scientists use to solve problems
What is the Scientific Method?
A method of investigating nature
A kilogram is a 1000 of these
What is a gram?
Recorded measurements from an experiment
What is data?
A stereomicroscope can magnify things
What is 10x-50x?
What is a variable?
The study of living things
What is Biology?
How much space an object takes up
What is Volume?
The curvature of water in a glass graduated cylinder
What is the meniscus?
Microscopes that magnify over 1,000,000x
What are SEM and AFM?