Chapter Vocab
_____ Science
_____ Science
_____ Science
Bonus
100
The study of how, why, and when things occur in the natural world.
What is science?
100
The study of living systems and the way they interact
What is life science?
100
The study of systems on our planet and in space
What is Earth science?
100
The study of matter and energy
What is physical science?
100
A person who studies science.
What is a scientist?
200
An attempt to explain a pattern observed repeatedly in the natural world.
What is a scientific theory?
200
A person who helps sick people get better.
What is a doctor?
200
A large formation of land that can go very high.
What is a mountain?
200
Anything that takes up space and has mass
What is matter?
200
The study of what makes people sick and how to help them get better
What is medicine?
300
A rule that describes a pattern in nature
What is a scientific law
300
The scientific name for anything that is living.
What is an organism?
300
There are five of these large bodies of salt water on Earth
What is an ocean?
300
The ability to cause a change in matter
What is energy?
300
A job that someone does for a long time
What is a career?
400
A collection of structures, cycles, and processes that relate to and interact with one another
What is a system?
400
All living things are made of one or more of these.
What is a cell?
400
The temperature and other outside conditions like rain and cloudiness at a particular time and place
What is the weather?
400
This is the force that makes things fall down to the ground on Earth
What is gravity?
400
Something that you see (begins with the letter "O")
What is an observation?
500
The practical use of science, or applied science.
What is technology?
500
It grows on food if you leave it out for too long. It is similar to mushrooms.
What is mold?
500
A mountain that contains lava and sometimes erupts.
What is a volcano?
500
A state of matter that is very loose and fills up large areas of space, like the air A state of matter that is tightly packed and has a fixed shape, like a rock or a chair. A state of matter that is less tightly packed and takes the shape of its container, like water.
What is a gas, solid, or liquid?
500
A group of tissues that work together to perform a complicated function (like your heart or your brain)
What is an organ?
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