Branches of Chemistry
Scientific Method Components of the Sea Butterfly Example
What is a Fact, Law, or Theory?
Physical Quantities
What is Solid, Liquid, or Gas?
100

The study of substances and processes that occur in living things

What is Biochemistry?

100

Sea butterflies produce a chemical that deters predators.

What is the Hypothesis?

100

The predator fish ate the regular pellets but rejected the pellets containing sea butterfly extract.

What is a Fact?

100

The amount of gravitational force on an object.

What is Weight?

100

A state of matter that has a fixed volume but not a fixed shape.

What is a Liquid?

200

The study of substances that do not contain carbon.

What is Inorganic Chemistry?

200

Amphipods like to carry sea butterflies.

What is the Observation?

200

Heat consists of a fluid called caloric that flows from hotter objects to colder objects.

What is a Theory?

200

The amount of matter in an object.

What is Mass?

200

A state of matter that usually has the highest particle energy.

What is a Gas?

300

The study of the identification and composition of substances.

What is Analytical Chemistry?

300

Why do amphipods abduct sea butterflies if they slow them down?

What is the Question?

300

Objects attract each other with a force that is proportional to the product of their masses divided by the square of the distance between them.

What is a Law?

300

The amount of space an object occupies.

What is Volume?

300

A state of matter that usually has the lowest density.

What is a Gas?

400

The study of substances that contain carbon.

What is Organic Chemistry?

400

The food pellets that did not contain sea butterfly extract.

What is the Control?

400

What we perceive as the force of gravity arises from the curvature of space and time.

What is a Theory?

400

The amount of mass in a specific volume.

What is Density?

400

A state of matter that usually has the lowest temperature.

What is a Solid?

500

The study of properties, transformations, and interrelationships of energy and matter.

What is Physical Chemistry?

500

If the sea butterflies produce a chemical that deters predators, then predators will eat regular pellets but will avoid pellets containing sea butterfly extract.

What is the Prediction?

500

There is no detectable change in the total mass of materials when they react chemically to form new materials.

What is a Law?

500

A measure of the amount of thermal energy in an object.

What is Temperature?

500

A state of matter that has higher density than another state of matter only when the substance is water.

What is a liquid?

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