Be a Scientist
What's that metric prefix/unit?
Experimental Design
Give me some energy!
Zooming into the atom
100
This is a word that describes the first part of the following statement: THE PEOPLE DOWN THE STREET MUST BE HAVING A BARBECUE because the air smells of smoke and burnt chicken.
What is an inference?
100
This is the SI unit for length.
What is meters?
100
This is the variable that is measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
100
This is what the law of conservation of energy states. (2 parts)
What is energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed?
100
This is the location of protons in an atom.
What is inside the nucleus?
200
This is a word that describes the second part of the following statement: The people down the street must be having a barbecue because THE AIR SMELLS OF SMOKE AND BURNT CHICKEN.
What is an observation?
200
This is the SI unit for volume.
What is liters?
200
This is the variable that is changed in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
200
This is the process in a chemical reaction that REQUIRES energy.
What is breaking bonds?
200
This is the location of electrons in an atom.
What is orbiting the nucleus?
300
This is what it means to form a hypothesis.
What is making a prediction about something that has been observed?
300
This is the "biggest" of the metric prefixes.
What is kilo-?
300
This is the variable that is unchanged in all groups of an experiment.
What is a control variable?
300
This is the process in a chemical reaction that RELEASES energy.
What is forming bonds?
300
This is the definition of valence electrons.
What is electrons in the outermost shell of an atom.
400
This is the step of the scientific method that comes after gathering data/testing the hypothesis.
What is Analyzing Data and Making a Conclusion?
400
This is what King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk stands for.
What is kilo-, hecto-, deka-, BASE, deci-, centi-, milli-?
400
You are testing the effect of different amounts of sleep on how well students perform in school. This is the dependent variable in this experiment.
What is student performance in school?
400
This is where the "missing" energy goes in a chemical reaction. (When the energy in does NOT equal energy out)
What is storage of chemical energy?
400
This is the mass of an electron.
What is 1/2000 amu?
500
This is the step of the scientific method represented below: Chargaff's results were published in many famous biological journals, and he participated in numerous in-person interviews.
What is Sharing Your Results?
500
This is the equivalent of 50 kilometers (km) in meters (m).
What is 50,000 meters?
500
This would be a good control variable in an experiment that tested the effect of different amounts of sunlight on plant growth.
What is the same amount of water, humidity, temperature...
500
These are 3 forms of energy.
What is thermal, chemical, electrical, kinetic, light?
500
This is how to calculate the number of neutrons in an atom.
What is subtracting the number of protons from the atomic mass?
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