Think Like a Scientist
This type of safety equipment is used to protect one's hands from dangerous chemicals, and can also be inflated to form funny-shaped balloona.
What are latex gloves?
Anything that has matter and takes up space is this.
What is matter?
This object consists of a tube of PVC pipe, two knotted ropes, and a ring, and it know to mystify science students.
What is a mystery tube?
The solar system we live in has nine planets, but only three are rocky: Earth, Mars, and this planet.
What is Venus?
What is natural selection?
This is an informed guess that a scientist makes before performing an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
What is kinetic energy?
This quantity is equal to the change in momentum.
What is impulse?
This is the region around a star where a planetary surface could sustain liquid water, is depends on the size and type of the star.
What is the habitable zone?
This type of organism is characterized by its consumption of dead organic matter.
What is a decomposer?
This method of organizing an argument emphasizes three components: the main statement, the data supporting it, and the logic or scientific principles that connect the data to the main statement.
What is claims, evidence, reasoning.
This method of heat transfer occurs when two objects are in direct contact, and the quickly moving molecules of one object bump up against the slower molecules of another, causing a transfer of energy.
What is conduction?
This property of a moving object can be calculated by multiplying the object's mass by its speed.
What is momentum?
This feature of the Earth is caused by the Earth's molten metal core, and, along with the atmosphere, is responsible for protecting the Earth from solar radiation.
What is Earth's magnetic field?
Many people believe that trees get their mass by consuming water or soil; however, most of the mass in trees comes from this molecule.
What is carbon dioxide?
This process of designing solutions consists of five steps: ask, imagine, plan, create, and improve.
What is the engineering design process?
This is the type of energy that is stored in molecules such as fructose or starch.
What is chemical energy?
This is the type of energy that ball at rest at the top of a hill contains.
What is gravitational potential energy?
Although many people believe that the seasons are caused by the changing distance between the Earth and the Sun, the seasons are actually caused by this.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis?
The killer whale, also know as the orca, is not actually a whale at all. It is actually a member of this family.
What is the dolphin family?
When one variable increases whenever another variable decreases, it is referred to as this type of correlation.
What is indirect correlation?
This indicator is used in test for starch.
What is iodine?
This is the type of force that is found in a string which is holding up a mass.
What is the tensile force?
Scientists study this type of event, caused by sudden releases of energy in the Earth's lithosphere, to learn about the inner layers of the Earth.
What are earthquakes, or what is seismic activity.
This is the process that results in higher levels of toxins higher up the food chain.
What is biomagnification?