What is Physical Science?
Scientific Inquiry
Science Lab Saftey
What is Technology?
Vocabulary
100
The skills that scientists use to learn more about the natural world.
What are observing, inferring, and predicting?
100
A possible answer to a scientific question or explantion for a set of observations.
What is a hypothesis?
100
Helps you stay safe when doing science activites in the lab.
What is good preparation?
100
Someone who is trained to use both technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
What is an engineer?
100
Sharing ideas and conclusions with others through writing and speaking.
What is communicating?
200
Based on reasoning from what you already know.
What are inferences?
200
The variable that is changed in the experiment.
What is the manipulated variable? (independent variable)
200
Chief concern while performing a science lab.
What is the saftey of yourself, your classmates, and your teacher?
200
The first stage in the technology design process.
What is indetifying a need?
200
The facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations.
What is data?
300
The study of the properties of matter and how matter changes.
What is chemistry.
300
Scientists use these three things to increase people's understanding of the natural world.
What are scientific models, scientific laws, scientific theories?
300
Should be read thoroughly before starting a lab.
What is the procedure?
300
Any factor that limits or restricts a design.
What is a constraint?
300
An investigation in which all variables except one remain the same.
What is a controlled experiment?
400
The study of matter, energy, and the changes they undergo.
What is physical science?
400
A statement that describes what scientists expect t happen every time under a particular set of conditions.
What is a scientific law?
400
This should be done after the lab is completed.
What is cleaning your work area?
400
Includes a goal, inputs, processes, outputs, and, in some cases, feedback.
What is a technological system?
400
A working model used to test a design.
What is a prototype?
500
Descriptions that don't involve numbers of measurements.
What are qualitative observations?
500
Makes up all substances.
What are atoms?
500
Shoould be notified as soon as an accident occurs.
What is the teacher?
500
An exchange in which one benefit is given up in order to obtain another.
What is a trade-off?
500
The process of analyzing a design problem and finding a wat to fix it.
What is troubleshooting?
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