Understanding Science
The investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new information that results from those investigations.
What is science?
This is a process that uses a set of skills to answer questions or to test ideas about the natural world.
What is scientific inquiry?
The practical use of scientific knowledge, especially for industrial or commercial use.
What is technology?
The number of steps in the Design Process.
What is seven (7)?
A spoken or written summary of observations.
What is a description?
The Iceman was well preserved because of this.
What is being frozen in ice?
The act of using one or more of your senses to gather information and taking note of what occurs.
What is an observation?
The character that lives in a pineapple under the sea.
Who is Sponge Bob?
The logical explanation of an observation that is drawn from prior knowledge or experience.
What is an inference?
This is an example outcome of science that was used to help a person hear.
Bonus: What is the name of the technology from the book that helps a deaf person hear?
What is technology?
A cochlear implant
The step that comes before researching the problem and brainstorming solutions.
What is identify the problem?
The interpretation of observations.
What is an explanation?
This is a person who studies plants and plant life cycles.
What is a botanist?
The study of Earth, including rocks, soils, oceans, and the atmosphere is this kind of science.
What is Earth Science?
A statement of what will happen next in a sequence of events.
What is a prediction?
These include waterproof and heat/fire-resistant and is an example outcome of science.
Bonus points: What is it they have made?
What are new materials?
Bonus: a 14-layer spacesuit
The final step in the Design Process.
What is communicate results?
This is the internationally accepted system for measurement.
Bonus: What is the abbreviation?
What is the International System of Units?
Bonus: SI
The name of the robot in the video we watched?
Who is Moby?
The study of living things is this type of science.
What is Life Science?
Before stating a hypothesis you should do this.
BONUS: If you can name the three possible ways, you can double your points.
What is ask questions?
Make Observations, State a Problem, Gather Information
This is another example outcome of science that NASA photos show clouds of gas and dust with newly formed stars.
What are possible explanations?
The step that happens before communicating results.
What is test and evaluate?
The phrase that was taught to remember the prefixes.
Double Bonus: Name the prefixes
Triple Bonus: Question will be asked after the bonus.
What is King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk?
Double Bonus: Kilo, Hecto, Deka, Base, Deci, Centi, Milli
Triple Bonus: Name the three bases and what they measure: grams- mass, meters- length, Liters- volume
This is any factor that can have more than one value.
What is a variable?
The possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations.
What is a hypothesis?
The study of matter and energy is this type of science.
What is Physical Science?
The conclusions drawn from scientific investigation when a hypothesis is supported.
What is repeat several times to confirm?
Another outcome of science is the development of these two things.
What are scientific theory and scientific law?
These four steps are in this shape.
What is a circle?
This is the number of digits in a measurement that you know with a certain degree of reliability.
What are significant digits?
This is the factor that you want to test.
What is an independent variable?
This is a rule that describes a pattern in nature.
What is a scientific law?
The difference between a fact and an opinion.
A fact is a measurement, observation, or statement that can be strictly defined.
An opinion is a personal view, feeling, or claim that cannot be proven true or false.
The conclusions drawn from scientific investigation when a hypothesis is NOT supported.
What is modify or revise hypothesis?
This is an explanation of observations or events that is based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations.
What is scientific theory?
The four steps that rotate around in a shape pattern.
What are design solutions, construct prototype, test and evaluate, and redesign?
When you add all the numbers up and divide by the total number of items you found this.
What is the mean?
This is the factor you observe or measure during an experiment.
What is a dependent variable?
This is comparing what you already know with the information you are given in order to decide whether you agree with it.
What is critical thinking?
The number of the branches of science.
What is three (3)?
If an iron ship floats, then a balsa wood boat will float.
Other answers will vary.
This is something that can result in changes to a scientific theory.
What is new information?
This was the prototype we made and tested in class.
What was the ring wing glider?
This is the difference between the greatest number and the least number in a data set?
What is the range?
The final conclusion about the Iceman was that he died at this time.
What is Spring?
These are two different groups that are used to determine the origins of some observations.
What are the control group and the experimental group?