What Is Science?
Using a Scientific Approach
Measurement
Units
Sig Figs
100
a body of knowledge and how you find that knowledge
What is science?
100
used to solve a problem or understand an observation
What is scientific methods?
100
a way of expressing a value as the product of a number between 1 and 9 and a power of 10.
What is scientific notation?
100
The straight line distance between two points.
What is length?
100
0.0321
What is 3?
200
The use of scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
What is Technology?
200
your prediction of what will happen and why
What is hypothesis?
200
The set of measuring units all scientists use.
What is International System of Units?
200
The quantity of matter in an object of sample.
What is mass.
200
10103
What is 5?
300
physical science, Earth and space science, and life science
What are three branches of science?
300
the factor that scientists purposely change.
What is manipulated variable?
300
These allow for more convenient ways to express SI base and derived units.
What are metric prefixes?
300
The amount of space taken up by an object.
What is volume?
300
0.03200
What is 4?
400
space and time, matter and change, forces and motion
What are the main ideas of physical science?
400
The factor that may change because of the manipulated variable adn that scientists want to observe.
What is the responding variable?
400
A measurement of how hot an object is.
What is temperature?
400
The ratio of an object's mass to its volume.
What is density?
400
3.010
What is 4?
500
The study of composition, structure, properties, and reactions of matter.
What is Chemistry?
500
A representation of an object.
What is a model?
500
The gauge of how exact a measurement is.
What is precision?
500
A two-dimensional quantity representing the amount of surface.
What is area?
500
1000.030
What is 7?
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