Lesson 1
A person who asks questions about the natural world.
What is a scientist?
Scientists often use __________ to make observations.
What are tools?
Scientists are like ___________.
What are detectives?
Scientists ___________ with each other to share what they learn.
What is communicate?
A _______ is an object used to do work.
What is a tool?
To look for answers.
What is to investigate?
A __________ is a tool used to help scientists observe weather.
What is a satellite?
Scientists _____________, or look for answers, using organized steps.
What is investigate?
One way scientists check each other's work is to ___________, or repeat, an experiment.
What is replicate?
A ______ ___ ________ is the quantity you use to measure something.
What is a unit of measure?
Everyone can be a ______________.
What is a scientist?
To __________ means to make a careful guess.
What is estimate?
When scientists do an experiment, they use ________ _________.
What are scientific methods?
A ___________ is a plan for testing a hypthesis.
What is a procedure?
What can be used to measure volume, or the amount of space object takes up?
What is a graduated cylinder?
The process of asking questions is _________.
What is inquiry?
You can use facts to _________, or draw a conclusion.
What is infer?
A ____________ is a possible answer to a question.
What is a hypothesis?
A _________ is a kind of list, and a way to organize what you record.
What is a chart?
____________ use several lenses to make objects appear larger.
What are microscopes?
Some questions cannot be answered by investigating. These answers are known as ___________.
What are opinions?
A good ___________ uses observations, inferences, prior knowledge, measurements, and data from an investigation.
What is an explanation?
A __________ is a copy of something.
What is a model?
A graph that helps you compare data and see patterns is a ____________.
What is a bar graph?
What is very important when you are performing experiments?
What is safety?