Thinking Like a Scientist
Using one or more of your senses to gather information and data.
What is observing? or What is making an observation?
The hotness or coldness of something.
What is temperature?
An experiment in which only one variable is changed at a time.
What is a controlled experiment?
The object that appears to stay in place.
What is a reference point?
A push or a pull exerted on an object.
What is force?
Forcasting what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence.
What is predicting? or What is making a prediction?
The distance from one point to another on an object.
What is length?
Factors that can change in an experiment.
What are variables?
The distance traveled divided by the time interval during which the motion occured.
What is speed?
The unit used to measure force?
What is a newton (N)?
Grouping items that are alike in some way.
What is classifying?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
The facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observation.
What is data?
An object's change in position relative to a reference point.
What is motion?
How you calculate net force when the forces are going in the same direction.
What is add the forces together?
Explaining or interpreting what you are currently observing or have observed in the past.
The amount of space an object takes up.
What is volume?
Summarizing what you have learned from an experiment.
What is drawing or making a conclusion?
The speed of an object in a particular direction.
What is velocity?
How you calculate net force when the forces are going in opposite directions.
What is subtract the forces?
The bird's beak is 3 cm long.
What is a quantitative observation?
The tool used to measure volume.
What is a graduated cylinder?
A possible explanation for a set of observations, or an answer to a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
The rate at which velocity changes over time.
What is acceleration?
Causes a change in an object's motion.
What is an unbalanced force?