What is Physical Science?
Physical Science is the study of which? living things or non-living things?
What is non-living things?
Using one or more of your senses to gather information
a. analysis
b. observing
What is observing
A well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results is a ... Theory or Law?
What is theory?
The three most common types of graphs used in science.
What are line, bar and pie graphs?
This is a series of logical steps to answer a question. It is includes a question, a hypothesis, an experiment, analysis and a conclusion
What is the Scientific Method?
You do this BEFORE you make your hypothesis
a. analysis b. research c. collect data
What is research?
A cubic centimeter is a unit for measuring _________
a. length
b. volume
c. mass
What is volume of a solid?
Metric (SI) units of measurement are based on multiples of _____. 1, 2 or 10?
What is 10?
What type of graph would you use to compare two or more things? Line, Bar or Pie chart?
What is a bar graph?
The 8th grade SOL covers which grades of science?
What is 6th, 7th and 8th grade
In an experiment, the one variable that is purposely changed to test a hypothesis is called the _________ variable.
What is Independent?
This is the SI (Metric) unit for mass.
What is the gram?
At home you might measure the volume of a liquid in a measuring cup. In the lab you would measure volume with a ___________. Graduated cylinder or Beaker?
What is Graduated Cylinder?
A graph used for showing a percent or fraction of a whole is the ____________. Line, Bar or Pie chart?
What is pie chart?
Physical Science studies atoms and the periodic table. True or False
What is True?
An educated guess.
What is a Hypothesis?
1 Kilogram is how many grams?
KHDBdcm
a. 10 b. 100 c. 1000
What is 1000?
When measuring the length of a pencil, what unit would you use? centimeter or meter?
What is a centimeter?
On a line graph, the x-axis has the variable changed by the experimenter. This is the ___________ variable.
What is independent?
Publishing an article in a scientific journal is one way that scientists ____________ their conclusions.
a. test
b. communicate
What is communicate?
Scientists use these to this to represent objects or processes that cannot be directly observed.
a. model b. graph
What is a model?
Convert 125 cm into meters. KHDBdcm
a. 0.125 m b. 1.25 m c. 12.5 m
What is 1.25 m?
Using a graduated cylinder to measure the volume of a solid is called volume by _____________.
a. measurement
b. water displacement
What is displacement?
The type of graph you would use to measure changes over time. Line, Bar or Pie chart
What is a line graph?