Vocabulary
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Conversions
100
a summary of many experimental results and observations; a law tells how things work.
What is Scientific Law?
100
To represent an object or event that can be studied to understand the real object or event.
Why do scientists use scientific models?
100
The ability and willingness to assess claims critically and to make judgements on the basis of objective and supported reasons
What is Critical Thinking?
100
Line Graph
What grapgh would you use to show continous change?
100
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200
an explanation for some phenomenon that is based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning.
What is Scientific Theory?
200
Physics and Chemistry
What are the 2 branches of physical science?
200
A series of steps followed to solve problems including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing a hypothesis and stating conclusions.
What is Scientific Method?
200
Bar Graph
What graph would you use to compare items?
300
the exactness of a measurement
What is Precision?
300
Biological, Physical, and Earth.
What are the 3 branches of natural science?
300
A factor that changes in an experiment in order to test a hypothesis.
What is variables
300
Pie graph
What kind of graph would you use to show parts of a whole?
400
a prescribed decimal place that determines the amount of rounding off to be done based on the precision of the measurement
What is Significant figure
400
Leonardo da Vinci
Who's ideas could not be built until 20th century technology developed?
400
a measure of the straight-line distance between two points.
What is Length?
400
the independent variable.
What does the x-axis represent in a line graph?
500
a description of how close a measurment is to the true value of the quantity measured.
What is accuracy?
500
X represents the unknown in a mathematical equation.
Why is is called X-rays?
500
A measure of the size of a body or region in three dimensional spaces.
What is Mass?
500
The dependent variable.
What does the y-axis represent in a line graph?
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