Nature of Science
A prediction that can be tested through experimentation.
What is a hypothesis?
Animals without a backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
Closed path through which electricity flows.
What is a circuit?
These are the 4 inner planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
Their characteristics include large size, many moons, and a gaseous outer layer?
What are the Gas Giants or Outer Planets?
Factors that remain unchanged in different trials of an experiment.
What are variables?
A collection of tissues that work together to perform a specific function in the human body.
What is an organ?
The ability to do work or change something.
What is energy?
This is the name of our galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
Average weather pattern developed over a period of time.
What is climate?
The item in an experiment that is as close to normal as possible without any extra conditions placed on it.
What is a control / control group?
Physical characteristics and behaviors that are passed from one generation to another.
What is heredity?
Force that pulls objects towards the center of Earth.
What is gravity?
Big space rocks which a majority are located between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
Gas changing to a liquid.
What is condensation?
A fair process in which variables are measured to test a hypothesis.
What is an experiement?
Physical traits and behaviors that allow a species to survive and thrive.
What are adaptations?
To cover or surround a material to reduce or stop the flow of electricity.
What is insulate/insulator?
A mixture of frozen ice, gas, and dust that appears to have a tail.
What is a comet?
The measure of the amount of matter an object has.
What is mass?
Using these allow scientists to collect data and draw evidence-based conclusions.
What are observations?
Movement from one area to another, usually for food or better living conditions.
What is migration?
Change that results in a new or different substance being formed.
What is a chemical change?
The Sun, eight planets and their moons, and all the objects that orbit the Sun.
What is our Solar System?
Type of force that causes an object to start or stop moving.
What is an unbalanced force?