The Scientific Method
What is the first step of the scientific method, which involves using your five senses?
Making an observation
This branch of science focuses on living things, from microscopic cells to massive blue whales.
Biology
All matter in the universe is made up of these tiny, fundamental building blocks.
Atoms
This push or pull acts on an object and can change its motion.
Force
This is the smallest, basic unit of life that makes up all living organisms.
Cell
This is a testable prediction or educated guess about how things work.
Hypothesis
This field investigates the building blocks of matter, chemical reactions, and how different substances interact.
Chemistry
When two or more of these same building blocks chemically bond together, they form this unit.
Molecule
This is the resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another.
Friction (a type of force)
Living things use this process to generate offspring and pass down genetic information.
Reproduction
To test that prediction, the scientist designs and carries out this highly controlled procedure.
Conduct an experiment
This area looks at matter, energy, forces, and motion to understand how the physical universe behaves.
Physics
This is a pure substance made of only one specific type of atom.
Element
This is the type of energy a moving object has.
Kinetic energy
This term describes any living individual, such as a plant, animal, or bacterium.
Organism
This is the step where the scientist organizes the evidence they collected into charts or graphs to review trends and look for patterns.
Analyzing data
This celestial science peers into deep space to study stars, planets, galaxies, and the origins of the universe.
Astronomy
This nucleus of the atom contains almost all of its mass, as it includes both ________ and _________.
Protons and Neutrons
This type of energy is stored in an object due to its position or state.
Potential Energy
This process describes how organisms with helpful traits are more likely to survive and reproduce.
Natural Selection
In this final phase, the scientist determines if the evidence supports their prediction and publishes the study so peers can review and replicate it.
Drawing conclusions and sharing results.
This discipline examines planet Earth, including its rock formations, earthquakes, volcanoes, and history.
Geology
These negatively charged particles move in the space surrounding the center of an atom.
Electrons
This fundamental law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed or transferred.
The Law of Conservation of Energy
This is the process by which different kinds of living organisms develop and diversify over long periods of Earth's history.
Evolution