Vocabulary
Vocabulary Part 2
Models
Scientific Method
Earth Science
100
This can be described by the units degrees Celsius, degrees Farenheit, or Kelvin
What is temperature
100
This is a series of steps scientists use to solve problems and answer questions
What is scientific method
100
This type of model is a miniature space shuttle
What is physical model
100
A scientists believes she found a vase that is two thousand years old. She compares it to features to those of similar vases in a museum. She is...
What is testing a hypothesis
100
To learn about plants and animals that live in the ocean you would talk to
What is biological oceanographer
200
The study of objects in space
What is astronomy
200
This is the study of the Earth's atmosphere, especially in relation to weather and climate
What is meteorolgy
200
The model of a graph is this type of model
What is mathematical model
200
Scientists in a scientific community need to learn the results of a scientific investigation because
What is they can review evidence to investigate further.
200
The scientist that studies the origin, history, and structure of earth
What is a geologist?
300
This is the ratio of mass to volume in an object
What is density
300
This is a possible explanation or answer to a question that can be tested
What is hypothesis
300
Name the three types of models. (BONUS 100 for naming the 4th)
What is mathematical, physical, conceptual, and climate
300
This step is the first step scientists use to learn more about the natural world
What is ask a question
300
A safety symbol that shows a picture of a bottle means
What is use chemicals safely
400
This is a pattern, representation, or description designed to show the structure or workings of an object, system, or concept.
What is a model
400
This is the measure of the size of a body or region in three-dimensional space
What is volume
400
The big bang theory is an example of this type of model
What is conceptual model
400
An explanation that ties together many hypothesis and explanations
What is theory
400
The appropriate unit for measuring the mass of a cow
What is kilogram
500
A scientist who studies the surface features of the Earth
What is a physical geographer
500
The study of how humans interact with their natural surroundings
What is environmental science?
500
A climate model is an example of a mathematical model because of this reason
What is The variables must be processed by computers
500
the advantage of having an International System of Units (SI UNITS)
What is it allows scientists everywhere to share and compare data
500
The area of a surface is found
What is by multiplying length x width
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