Science and the Scientific Method
Properties of Matter
States of Matter
Density
Labs
100
The process of studying, observing and critically thinking about the world.
What is Science?
100
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is Matter?
100
State of matter that has a fixed volume AND a fixed shape.
What is a solid?
100
The amount of space that matter occupies.
What is volume?
100
The oxygen end of a water molecule has this charge.
What is negative?
200
The study of Earth and the Atmosphere.
What is Earth Science?
200
Tiny particles that make up matter.
What are atoms?
200
State of matter that has the MOST energy and is made from floating electrons and ions.
What is Plasma?
200
mass divided by volume
What is the density of an object?
200
The type of soda that is more dense because the sugar in it has more mass.
What is regular pepsi?
300
The number of protons in an atom.
What is the Atomic Number?
300
Where protons and neutrons are located in the atom.
What is the nucleus?
300
Thing that is needed for matter to complete a PHYSICAL change (move from one state to another)
What is Energy?
300
1.0 g/mL
What is the density of water?
300
The effect on matter of adding or removing energy.
What is a phase/state change?
400
Identify a problem, Gather Information, Make a hypothesis, Test the hypothesis, Analyze results, Draw a conclusion.
What are the steps in the Scientific Method?
400
A group of atoms connected by a bond.
What is a molecule?
400
The name given to the transition of water to a gas.
What is evaporation?
400
The reason I can have a cube of copper and a cube of wood that have the same volume but different densities.
What is the mass. (The number of particles/the way they are packed into a space.)
400
Method for finding the volume of an IRREGULARLY shaped object...which can be used to find the density of the object.
What is volume/density displacement method?
500
Different factors that can change in an experiment. For example, time or amount of something.
What are variables?
500
The properties that allow water striders to ride on the water's surface without sinking.
What are Cohesion and Surface Tension?
500
Excess _______ causes a layer of frost to form on the surface of ice in an arena.
What is humidity? (the amount of water vapor in the air)
500
One way to make an object that normally sinks in water, float.
What is increase the mass...(Add something like salt.)
500
The baseline for comparing your test results.
What is a CONTROL?
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