True or False.
A reasonable guess is known as a law.
What is False?
A reasonable guess is known as a hypothesis.
100
An example of a scientific law.
What is gravity?
100
The scientific explanation for why 20 or more drops stayed together on top of the penny.
What is cohesion, or cohesive properties of water molecules?
100
A rule that describes a pattern in nature is a ________.
What is law?
100
Things that can be changed in an experiment.
What is variables?
200
True or False.
Computer models can be touched.
What is False?
Computer models can not be touched.
200
A collection of structures.
What is a system?
200
The reason the food coloring drops dissolved in the water and not the oil.
What is "likes dissolve likes"?
200
__________are the best scientific explanations that have been found so far.
What is theories?
200
The variable that depends upon changes in the independent variable.
What is dependent variable?
300
True or False.
Geology is an example of a life science.
What is False?
Geology is an example of an Earth Science.
300
A way of learning more about the natural world.
What is Science?
300
Structures, cycles, and _________ all fit together to form a system.
What is processes?
300
A system is made up of _______, cycles, and processes.
What is structures?
300
Things that do not change in an experiment.
What is constants?
400
True or False.
Drawing a conclusion based on what you observed is called inferring.
What is True?
400
Anything that takes up space and has mass.
What is matter?
400
The reason the diet Sunkist floated while the regular Root Beer sank.
What is more sweetening ingredients (high fructose corn syrup)?
400
A reasonable, and educated guess.
What is hypothesis?
400
The variable that is changed in an experiment.
What is independent?
500
True or False.
Once you have a good hypothesis, the next step is to test it.
What is True?
500
The practical use of science.
What is technology?
500
In the garderner/fertilizer lab you recommended a fertilizer to another gardener after analyzing the data. This is the ______ _______ step of the scientific method.
What is drawing conclusion?
500
The results of an experiment must be ____________ in order for other scientists to be able to confirm results.
What is repeatable/reproducible?
500
You could use a model to run a _________ _________ which would involve changing one factor and observing its effect on another.