What is Inquiry?
Observations
Inferences
Measurement Tools
Metric Prefixes
100
The type of observation you make using your senses
What is a qualitative observation?
100
A logical explanation for what you observe
What is an inference?
100
The tool that is used for measuring mass
What is the balance?
100
The reason we use metric instead of English in science
What is metric is easier (base 10) than English?
200
An opinion or belief
What is a question that can't be answered by science?
200
The dog has four puppies.
What is an example of quantitative observation?
200
The inference that explains why there is water on my car in the morning, the grass is wet, and there are puddles in the street.
What is it rained last night?
200
Beaker, Erlenmeyer flask, and graduated cylinder
What are the three tools for liquids?
200
The prefix that means 0.1 or one tenth
What is deci-?
300
The three types of variables
What are independent variable, dependent variable, and control variable?
300
The meaning of quantitative observation
What is the observation that includes numbers and units?
300
The inference why I hear a thud before I walk into the room. When I step into the room, my brother is on the floor and his foot is wrapped in cords.
What is he tripped over the cords?
300
What I would use to see tiny objects like cells
What is the microscope?
300
The smallest prefix
What is milli-?
400
How much water do plants need? What type of car will go the fastest?
What are examples of testable questions?
400
I see many bubbles foaming in the test tube.
What is an example of qualitative observation?
400
If and then
What are the two words that must be in a hypothesis?
400
The purpose of the ruler
What is to measure length or distance?
400
The prefix you use for measuring large objects like the mass of a truck or the distance across Mississippi
What is kilo-?
500
The variable that you measure or collect in an experiment
What is the dependent variable?
500
An example of a quantitative observation.
What is _______________________? (Observation must include numbers)
500
An example of a hypothesis about how much you study and your test grade
What is if I study more, then my test grade will improve?
500
The tool you would use to see tiny details on a object such as a rock.
What is the hand lens?
500
The saying we can use to help us remember the order of the prefixes
What is kids have dropped over dead converting metric?
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