Scientific Inquiry
A possible answer to a scientific question and is based on gathered information
What is a hypothesis?
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
Any material that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
It takes one day, or 24 hours, for the Earth to do this.
What is rotate?
The energy in ecosystems comes from this.
What is the sun?
Using your senses to gather information.
What is an observation?
A push or a pull.
What is a force?
The building blocks of all matter.
What are atoms?
The outermost, thinnest, least dense layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
The basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
A process that provides investigators with a logical approach to problem solving.
What is the scientific method?
A process through which light energy is converted to chemical energy
What is photosynthesis?
Animals that get energy by eating producers (plants) or other consumers
What is a consumer?
Earthquakes can be destructive when their vibrations produce giant waves called this.
What is a tsunami?
The movement of animals from one place to another in response to seasonal changes
What is migration?
The amount of space an object takes up
What is volume?
_______= Mass x Acceleration
What is force?
The subatomic particle that has a positive charge.
What is a proton?
The Earth, the Sun, and the seven other planets that are in orbit around the Sun are part of this.
What is the solar system?
A diagram that shows which organisms eat, or are eaten by, other organisms
What is a food chain?
He first presented the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
To know the velocity of an object, you need to know these two factor.
What are speed and direction?
This makes up 99% of the mass of an atom.
What is a nucleus?
Clusters or groups of stars, dust, and gas that are held together by gravity
What is a galaxy?
Changes to an organism's genetic material
What are mutations?