Introduction
Systems in Science
Scientific Method
Lab
SI Units
100
A way of learning more about the natural world.
What is science?
100
A collection of structures, cycles, and processes that relate to and interact with each other.
What is a system?
100
Communication
What is the last step of the scientific method?
100
Our #1 priority in the lab.
What is safety?
100
A description of how close measurements are to each other.
What is precision?
200
Cannot be answered by science.
What is questions about art, politics, personal preference, or morality?
200
Science is often divided into three main categories, or branches.
What is life science, Earth science, and physical science.
200
hypothesis
What is an educated guess or prediction?
200
Any representation of an object or an event used as a tool for understanding the natural world.
What is a model?
200
The number of significant digits in this number 0.0000549000
What is 6?
300
A prediction
What is a hypothesis?
300
The study of matter and energy.
What is physical science?
300
Involves changing one factor and observing its effect on another while keeping all other factors constant.
What is a controlled experiment?
300
Combining what you already know with the new facts that you are given to decide if you should agree with something.
What is critical thinking?
300
SI unit that measures length
What is a meter?
400
An attempt to explain a pattern observed repeatedly in the natural world.
What is a scientific theory?
400
The practical use of science, or applied science.
What is technology?
400
Factors that can be changed in an experiment.
What are variables?
400
A way to describe the world with numbers.
What is measurement?
400
SI unit that measures electric current
What is an ampere?
500
A rule that describes a pattern in nature.
What is a scientific law?
500
The first step of the scientific method.
What is to observe/question?
500
Variable not changed in an experiment.
What is a constant?
500
Helps you make a rough measurement of an object.
What is an estimation?
500
SI unit that measures intensity of light
What is candela?
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