I have a system!
Inquiring minds want to know.
Engineers don't just drive trains.
Lab Rats
It's a mystery.
100
This is the limit of the system to be studied.
What is a system boundary?
100
This is what a hypothesis is.
What is a prediction of what will happen in an experiment based on prior knowledge?
100
This is how design solutions are evaluated.
What are the criteria and constraints of a problem?
100
I am a prefix that means 1/10 or 0.1.
What is deci?
100
Grams are used to measure this property of matter.
What is mass?
200
This is a simplified representation of a system that is used to study the system.
What is a model?
200
This sets the purpose of an experiment or investigation.
What is an investigative question?
200
These are the three parts of engineering design.
What are define (the problem), develop solutions, optimize (solutions)?
200
The prefix centi is used to describe this fraction or multiple of a whole.
What is 1/100 or 0.01?
200
This is what a controlled variable is.
What is a factor kept the same from trial to trial in an experiment to keep the investigation valid?
300
This is a system that is part of another system.
What is a subsystem.
300
This is the variable being measured and recorded.
What is the responding or dependent variable?
300
Scientific principles and environmental impacts are examples of these.
What are design constraints?
300
Liters are used to measure this property of matter.
What is volume?
300
This is the energy, information, or matter that enters a system.
What is input?
400
This is the energy, information, and matter that exits a system.
What is output?
400
This is the goal of science.
What is to ask and answer questions about the natural world?
400
This is the word used to describe the last car on a train.
What is a caboose? (Made you smile!)
400
This prefix means 1000 times a given unit of measure.
What is kilo-?
400
This is a prefix that means 1/1000 of a unit.
What is milli-?
500
This is the term used to describe parts that form a whole.
What is a system?
500
This is the independent or manipulated variable in an experiment.
What is the factor being purposely changed by the experimenter?
500
This is the goal of engineering.
What is to apply scientific understanding in developing solutions?
500
This lab material is round and flat with raised edges.
What is a petri dish?
500
Hecto- is the prefix used to represent this fraction or multiple of a unit.
What is 100?
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