1.1: What is Science?
Begins with curiosity and ends in discovery.
What is science?
This is information you obtain through your senses.
What is an observation?
6.9 X 105 is written in what form?
What is scientific notation?
Data can be organized with the following tools.
What are data tables and graphs?
The digestion of food would fall under what science(s)?
What are biology and chemistry?
These two things are interdependent. Advances in one lead to advances in the other.
What are science and technology?
This stage of the scientific method is where the scientist proposes an educated guess to a bigger question.
What is a hypothesis?
Length, mass, and temperature are all examples of ______________ units.
What are SI base units?
On a graph, the slope can be found by calculating what?
Studying rock samples from the moon would be what kind of science(s)?
What is astronomy?
This is made up of both volume and mass and is made up of atoms.
What is matter?
A scientist analyzes how much snow falls on several different US cities. The amount of snow fall is the _________________ variable.
What is the responding variable (or dependent)?
If you want to convert a measurement from meters to centimeters, you don't need to actually do any math. All you need to do is __________________________.
What is move the decimal point to the right to the left?
This type of graph is circular and describes how one piece of data relates to other pieces of the same type of data.
What is a circle graph?
Growing a vegetable garden falls under what science(s)?
What are botany and Earth science?
This practice is when scientists critique each other's work, which holds each other accountable.
What is peer review?
This well tested explanation is not completely proven. If it is, scientists will have to re-label it as a law.
What is a scientific theory?
This measurement of temperature has a boiling and melting point that are powers of 10.
What is Celsius?
These are some of the things that peer review encourages.
What are comments, criticism, suggestions, and/or questions?
The throwing of a baseball falls under what science(s)?
What are physics and biology?
This is the kind of energy that moving objects have.
What is kinetic energy?
This is the next step you follow if your hypothesis is not supported.
What is revising your hypothesis and retesting it?
These are all the digits known in a measurement, plus the last digit that is estimated.
What are significant figures?
In an inverse proportional relationship, the _________ of two variables is constant.
What is the product?
Using an electric mixer to whip up egg whites would be what kind of science(s)?
What are chemistry and physics?