The Nature of Science
The Way Science Works
Organizing Data
The Metric System
Using scientific notation
100

A phenomena you detect with one of your senses

What is an observation?

100

The part of an experiment that serves as a standard of comparison

What is a control?

100

Best for showing continuous changing data

What is a line graph?

100

10 raised to the power of 9

What is the prefix giga?

100
1000
What is 10 to the third power?
200
Observing, studying, and experimenting
What is science?
200

A testable prediction that predicts a cause and effect relationship

What is a hypothesis?

200

Compares data for several individual items.

What is a bar graph?

200

.01

What is the prefix centi-?

200
1
What is 10 to the zero power?
300
Physics and Chemistry
What are the two branches of Physical Science?
300

A factor in an experiment that changes in response to the independent variable

What is the dependent variable ?

300
Represents data as part of a whole.
What is a pie chart?
300
1000
What is the prefix kilo-?
300

In scientific the number if digits to the left of the decimal.

What is one?

400

A description of how things happen in nature that seems to be true all the time

What is a scientific law? 

400

The extent of which a measurement approaches its true value

What is accuracy?

400
The extent to which a measurement approaches the true value.
What is accuracy?
400
.001
What is the prefix milli-?
400
220 000
What is 2.2 X 10 to the 5th power
500

A tested explanation of a natural phenomena

What is a scientific theory?

500

A factor that does NOT change in an experiment

What is a constant?

500
The degree of exactness of a measurement.
What is precision?
500

10 raised to the power of -6

What is the prefix micro-?

500
4.2 x 10 to the 5th power
What is 420 000
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