Scientific Inquiry
Safety/SI units
Matter
Measurement
WILD
100
Using one or more of your senses to gather information.
What is observing?
100
The number of mm in one m.
What is 1000?
100
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
100
The amount of space that matter takes up.
What is volume?
100
The formula for density.
What is D= m/v
200
The main difference between inferring and predicting.
What is inferring is about the past or present and predicting is about the future?
200
The unit of measurement for mass.
What is grams?
200
A characteristic that can be observed without changing the matter into something new.
What is a physical property?
200
The definition of weight.
What is the measure of the force of gravity?
200
This is what the analysis section of your lab report does.
What is explains WHY you got the results you did?
300
A possible answer to a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
300
The unit of measurement for density.
What is g/cm3?
300
A characteristic that describes a substance's ability to change into another substance.
What is a chemical property?
300
The formula for calculating volume/
What is l x w x h?
300
The variable that acts as your "standard of comparison."
What is the control group?
400
The one factor that you intentionally change in an experiment.
What is the manipulated variable?
400
The proper way to test the odor of a substance.
What is to waft?
400
A mixture in which you cannot distinguish the seperate substances involved.
What is a homogeneous mixture?
400
This is why density can be used to determine what element an unknown substance is.
What is What is density is a physcial property that does not change (will always be the same for the same material)?
400
A statement about what scientists expect to happen every time.
What is a scientific law?
500
An investigation in which all factors remain the same except one
What is a controlled experiment.
500
The best way to not get hurt in a lab.
What is to not goof off?
500
This is the main difference between compounds and mixtures.
What is compounds are chemically combined in a set ratio. Mixtures are not and can be easily separated?
500
You can find the volume of an irregular shaped object by doing this.
What is the displacement method (using water)?
500
A well-tested explanation for a series of events.
What is a scientific theory?
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