Vocabulary
What do we call a person who asks questions about nature and investigates nature?
What is a Scientist.
What metric unit of would you use to measure the length of a pencil?
What is centimeters.
What kind of questions cannot be answered by scientists and give an example of that kind of question?
What is an opinion like, "What is your favorite ice cream?"
What do we call a copy of the real thing that scientists look at to learn about the real thing?
What is a model.
What metric unit of measure would you use to measure the mass of a paper clip?
What is a gram.
What are all the 5 senses that help a scientist make observations? Name them all.
What is taste, touch, hearing, seeing, and smell.
What is a scientist doing when he/she uses their 5 senses in an investigation?
What is observing or an observation.
What metric unit would you use to measure the volume of a small water bottle?
What is milliliters.
What are 2 ways a scientist can record data?
What are charts, graphs, taking notes, drawing pictures.
What do we call it when a scientist makes a prediction or educated guess of what they think will happen in an experiment before they do it?
What we call a hypothesis.
What unit of measure would you use to measure the temperature of the air?
What is degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius.
What is the first step in the Scientific Method for a scientist since they are very curious people?
What is ask a question.
What is name for the process of asking questions?
What is inquiry.
When you plan a scientific investigation, is it best to write out the procedure so someone else can follow it or should you keep it to yourself so no one else can copy and try the investigation?
What is to write out the procedure so someone else can follow it.