What is a scientist?
What are the five senses?
Hearing, seeing, touching, smelling and tasting.
What are the 2 different types of Investigations that scientists do?
Descriptive and Experimental Investigations.
What do advertisements try to get us to do?
Buy something by making a claim or statement.
What are the two measuring systems ?
Customary and Metric
Experiment
a test to try to answer a question
What is science?
When something is changed in an experiment is it called a what?
Variable
False.
Which measuring system is used in the United States?
Customary system
The study of something in a certain way in order to find out more information.
Investigation
What are the 3 main types of science?
Life Science, Physical Science, and Earth Science.
How is data often shown?
With tables and graphs.
What does it mean to exaggerate something?
To make a statement about something that is more true than it really is.
What are the customary and metric units of length?
Customary: inch ; mile
Metric: meter
Hypothesis
A botanist is an example of this kind of scientist.
Life Scientist
What is the difference between a hypothesis and a prediction?
What does it mean for a scientist to think critically?
They look at evidence and decide if it is likely true or not.
How many centimeters are on a meter stick?
100 centimeters are in a meter.
Abbreviation
a shortened form of a word
What is the difference between making an observation and making an inference?
To observe is to use your senses to find out more about something while making an inference is based on making a conclusion about your observation.
What are the 6 steps to a descriptive investigation?
Ask a question ; Make a prediction ; Procedures ; data ; conclusion ; communication.
What kind of evidence is measured or observed directly?
Empirical Evidence.
A dime.
To place something in the group where it belongs
Classify