OBSERVATION & INFERENCE
SCIENTIFIC METHODS
MATTER
ASTRONOMY
SCIENCE POTPOURRI
100
THE FIVE SENSES THAT CAN BE USED BY SCIENTISTS TO MAKE OBSERVATIONS.
What are sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch?
100
A scientist notices something that sparks her interest in answering the questions "Why?" or "How?".
What is making an observation?
100
Positive, neutral, and negative.
What are the charges of a proton, a neutron, and an electron?
100
Earth's satellite.
What is the moon?
100
Species that no longer exist on Earth.
What are extinct species?
200
A TOOL USED BY ASTRONOMERS TO SEE THE PLANETS.
What is a telescope? (also satellites, probes, rovers)
200
The format for writing a hypothesis.
What is in an "If...., then...-statement"?
200
The two regions of an atom.
What are the nucleus and the electron shells (or valences)?
200
The name of the United State's program to land on the moon.
What is Apollo?
200
5,280 written in scientific notation.
What is 5.280 x 10 3?
300
This is when a scientist uses prior knowledge or evidence to arrive at an explanation for an observation.
What is to infer/make an inference?
300
The experimental group has this component, while the control group does not.
What is an independent variable?
300
Sodium (Na) has one valence electron. As a result, sodium prefers this kind of bond.
What is an ionic bond?
300
The months (or seasons) for solstices and equinoxes.
What are June and December (summer and winter solstices) and March and September (spring and autumn equinoxes)?
300
How Steve Irwin, "The Crocodile Hunter", was killed.
What is being impaled by a stingray barb?
400
Give an example of an observation and inference about a fossil.
What is the fossil looks like _______ so that it must be a __________?
400
The independent variable in our spectroscopy lab.
What is the type of light? (element is acceptable as well)
400
Solids, liquids, gases, and plasma.
What are the four states of matter?
400
23.5 degrees.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis?
400
The name of the process when energy is added to solid.
What is melting (or sublimation)?
500
Double JEOPARDY (chance to bet more than 500 points). MACK HAS THE ANSWER.
What is that inferences must be logical or within a reasonable realm accepted by science?
500
A control group's contribution to an experiment.
What is a standard for comparing the results?
500
A sketch of a neutral atom of carbon.
What is a sketch showing six protons, six neutrons (in a nucleus) and six electrons (two in first level and four in the next)?
500
The cause for day and night.
What is Earth's rotation on its axis?
500
Five organ systems found in mammals.
What are respiratory, cardiovascular, digestive, excretory, reproductive, endocrine, integumentary, nervous, muscular, or skeletal systems?
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