The Laboratory
You wear these over your eyes to protect them from splashes and flying objects during experiments.
What are safety goggles?
This is the basic unit of life that makes up all living things.
What is a cell?
This natural satellite affects the ocean’s tides.
What is the Moon?
This is the smallest unit of matter that still has the properties of an element.
What is an atom?
This part of a graph tells you what kind of information is being shown.
What is the title?
This open glass container is used for stirring, mixing, and heating liquids, and looks like a cup with a lip.
What is a beaker?
This part of the cell acts like the “brain,” controlling what the cell does.
What is the nucleus?
This force keeps the planets in orbit.
What is Gravity?
This is the chemical formula for water.
What is H₂O?
An educated guess at what will happen in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
This cone-shaped instrument helps guide large amounts of liquids into other containers.
What is a funnel?
This is the process by which living things develop and become bigger over time.
What is growth?
This occurs when the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon, casting a shadow on it.
What is a lunar eclipse?
This property allows water molecules to stick to each other, forming droplets.
What is cohesion?
You use this graph to compare different categories of data.
What is a bar graph?
This tool is used to hold or transfer small amounts of liquid precisely — often in drops.
What is a pipette?
This green organelle is found in plant cells and helps the plant make its own food using sunlight.
What is a chloroplast?
This space object burns up in Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
This is the solid material left behind on the filter paper after filtration.
What is the residue?
This word is often used in science to refer to a labeled diagram, chart, or image included in a lab report or textbook.
What is a figure?
This source of gas adds fire to experiments.
What is a Bunsen burner?
Living things use these to respond to changes in their environment.
What are senses?
This event happens around June 21st in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the summer solstice?
This negatively charged particle orbits the nucleus of an atom.
What is an electron?
This term describes how consistent the results of an experiment are when repeated under the same conditions.
What is reliability?