Science 101
What is the substance of the physical world?
Matter
The study of soil
Pedology
The use of science to solve practical problems
Technology
Element
What is the general term for water below the soil's surface?
Groundwater
What is the study of matter?
Science
The three basic soil substances that plants need to live are collectively called what?
Primary Plant Food Elements
Chemists express the degree of acidity or basicity of a substance using what?
Atoms linked together in a group.
Molecule
What is the surface of the water under the ground?
Water Table
Hypothesis are made using what kind of reasoning?
Deductive
Name all three primary plant food elements
Phosphorus, Potassium, & Nitrogen
What do logicians call a statement of fact that can be used to make a conclusion?
Proposition
The amount of matter in an object
Mass
What type of soil allows the most air and water into itself?
Sandy Soil
If a scientist performs an experiment multiple times with all factors as close to the same as possible and came to the same conclusion each time, what is this an example of?
Repeatability
What type of soil allows the most rain to run off?
Clayey Soil
What form of inductive reasoning involves comparing two situations that are the same except for one factor?
Method of Difference
How tightly packed matter is
Density
What is a layer of either porous rock or gravel-soil mixture that holds water?
Aquifer
"If a substance is a mineral, then it is made of crystals. The rock pumice is not made of crystals. Therefore, pumice is not a mineral."
This conclusion is a type of inference is called ____?____
Denying the Consequent
Describe the nitrogen cycle
*Answers will vary
Consider the following statements: "If an object is a planet, then it orbits the sun. Mercury is a planet."
Drawing a conclusion about Mercury based on this information would be what kind of reasoning?
Deductive
A substance containing two or more types of atoms bonded together
Compound
What is the upward movement of water through a tiny space in response to surface tension?
Capillarity (or Capillary Action)