Investigation
& Measurement
& Measurement
The tool would you use to measure the length of an object
What is a ruler?
The three common states of matter
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
The outermost layer of the Earth
What is the crust?
The basic unit of life
What is the cell?
A push or pull
What is a force?
The unit normally used to measure the mass of a small object
What is the gram?
The term used to describe the shift from a solid state to a liquid state
What is melting?
The process which causes water vapor to form liquid droplets
What is condensation?
An organism that makes its own food, usually through photosynthesis
What is a producer?
A force that opposes motion between surfaces in contact
What is friction?
The variable which is NOT changed during an experiment
What is the Control Variable?
The type of change where matter moves from one state to another
What is a physical change?
The movement of weathered rock, soil, or sediment from one location to another
What is erosion?
The two primary gases associated with photosynthesis
What are carbon dioxide and oxygen?
A change in speed
What is acceleration?
The experimental variable used to determine the effect of sunlight on plant growth
What is the Amount of Sunlight?
The type of change where matter becomes a different substance
What is a chemical change?
The primary driver of the water cycle
What is the Sun?
An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms
What is a consumer?
A device which changes the amount or direction of the force needed to accomplish a task
What is a simple machine?
The two primary types of data/evidence collected in an experiment
What are quantitative and qualitative data?
The ratio of mass to volume
What is density?
The Earth's only natural satellite
What is the Moon?
They break down dead organisms and waste, returning nutrients to the environment
What are decomposers?
The type of force which results in a change in motion
What is an unbalanced force?