Vocabulary
The system of measuring units that is used by scientists.
What is SI or metric system?
The natural sciences are normally divided into the life, earth/space, and ________________.
What is physical science?
The base unit for length in the metric system.
What is meter?
What is the variable that is manipulated or changed by the experimentor?
The independent variable
Spit-balling ideas and generating solutions collectively.
What is brainstorming?
The series of steps that are followed to solve problems and answer questions.
What is the engineering process?
The type of data the scientists record from making observations based on measurements in science?
What is quantitative data?
Used to measure mass.
What is triple-beam balance (double pan balance) or a scale?
The variable that is measured.
The dependent variable
After making observations and brainstorming you create this which is a possible answer of your observations and can be tested.
What is a prototype
The investigation and exploration of natural events that occur in the world around us.
What is science?
A representation of something in the natural world, typically too small or large to study up close.
What is a model?
The measure of the amount of space an object takes up and its base unit.
What is volume and liter?
The variables that remain the same for all trial in an investigation so that the experiment can be VALID.
What are the constant variable?
If your prototype does not work this is the next step in the process.
What is redesign or adjust
A well-supported explanation of the natural world (hint: explains WHY something happens).
What is theory?
Name three reliable sources that can be used when conducting research
What are the Internet (.org, .gov, .edu websites), encyclopedia, nonfiction books, scientific periodicals/articles, or publications of other scientists' work?
Convert 930 g to hectograms.
What is 9.30 hectograms?
Part of the experiment used as a comparison
What is the control
Making ___________ about the world around you leads you to asking questions.
What is observations?
Describes a basic principle of nature that always occurs under certain conditions (hint: explains HOW something happens).
What is a law?
The purposes of scientific inquiry.
What is answer questions, improve technology, and solve problems.
Explain why the metric system is much "easier" to use (not WHY scientist use the metric system).
What is it is based on the powers of ten? (all you have to do is move the decimal point when converting between units because of this).
How does parachute size effect the rate of a falling object? The independent variable. The dependent variable.
What is the size of the parachute? What is the rate of a falling object?
A possible solution to a problem or an educated quess.
Hypothesis