Chapter Vocab
Kind of Science 1
Kind of Science 2
Kind of Science 3
100
A way of learning more about the natural world by asking why, when, or how something happened.
What is science?
100
The study of the planet and space
What is earth science?
100
The study of things that are alive
What is life science?
100
The study of matter and energy
What is physical science?
200
An attempt to EXPLAIN a pattern observed repeatedly (again and again) in the natural world.
What is a scientific theory?
200
A huge body of salt water. There are five of them in the world. One of them is the Pacific.
What is an ocean?
200
A kind of scientist that studies sickness and medicine.
What is a doctor?
200
Anything that takes up space and has mass
What is matter
300
A rule that DESCRIBES a pattern in nature
What is a scientific law?
300
A moving body of water that starts in one place and ends in another. On a large map, it might look like a long blue line or string.
What is a river?
300
A living thing that usually has leaves, stems, and roots.
What is a plant
300
The ability to cause change in matter
What is energy?
400
A collection of structures, processes, and cycles that relate to and interact with each other
What is a system?
400
When the ground shakes, sometimes very weakly and sometimes very strongly. There was a very strong one in Sichuan in 2008.
What is an earthquake?
400
A scientific word for anything that is alive
What is an organism.
400
(Almost) the smallest unit of matter. In Greek, it means "uncut," because they thought it was too small to be broken.
What is an atom?
500
The practical use or application of science to make something new and useful
What is technology?
500
The condition of the air outside, including the temperature (how hot it is) and the humidity (how wet it is)
What is the weather?
500
The smallest unit of life. All living things are made of one or more of these.
What is a cell?
500
The study of matter and how it interacts.
What is chemistry?
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