Section 1
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Section 2
Other Vocab
Vocabulary You Should know
100
A way of learning more about the natural world
What is Science?
100
2 careers in science
What is biologist and chemist? Other answers might apply.
100
An educated guess
What is an hypothesis?
100
Representation of an object or an event used as a tool for understanding the natural world.
What is a model?
100
Something that has mass and takes up space
What is matter?
200
A collection of structures, cycles, and processes that relate to and interact with each other.
What is a system?
200
Questions that science cannot answer
Who is your best friend? Things about politics, etc.
200
Drawing a conclusion based on what you observe
What is infer?
200
A model you can see and touch
What is a physical model?
200
the amount of matter in something
What is mass?
300
The study of living things
What is Life Science?
300
a rule that describes a pattern in nature
What is scientific law?
300
Factors that can be changed in an experiment
What is a variable?
300
Model built using a computer software
What is a computer model?
300
A push or a pull that makes an object move
What is a force?
400
The study of matter and energy?
What is physical science?
400
An attempt to explain a pattern observed repeatedly in the natural world
What is scientific theory?
400
A general pattern that all scientific investigations follow
What is scientific method?
400
model that is an idea or concept that describes how someone thinks about something in the natural world.
What is idea model?
400
The concentration of matter in an object, mass per volume
What is density?
500
The study of Earth systems and systems in space
What is Earth Science?
500
the practical use of science, or applied science
What is technology?
500
involves changing one factor and observing its effect on other factors
What is controlled experiment?
500
Combining what you already know with new facts to decide if you should agree with something
What is critical thinking?
500
The ability to cause changes in matter
What is energy?
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