Becoming a Scientist
A piece of lab equipment with 3 legs
What is a tripod?
What all living things are made of
What is a cell?
What all matter is made up of
What are atoms?
The star at the centre of the solar system
What is the sun?
The two general categories of energy
What are kinetic and potential?
A best guess at the results of an experiment
What is a hypothesis?
An animal that eats other animals
What is a carnivore?
The state of water at room temperature
What is a liquid?
The first human to walk on the Moon
Who was Neil Armstrong?
A type of energy present in all visible objects
What is light energy?
Correct footwear in a lab
What are fully enclosed leather shoes?
An instrument used for looking at small things including cells
What is a microscope?
The change of matter from solid to liquid
What is melting?
The planet closest to the Sun
What is Mercury?
This nuclear power station went into meltdown in 1986
Where is Chernobyl?
A scientist who studies living things
What is a biologist?
A non-living thing
What does abiotic mean?
How heat moves through a solid
What is conduction?
The force from the Sun and Moon that causes the tides
What is gravity?
The energy transformations in a battery powered speaker
What is Chemical stored energy --> Electrical energy --> Sound energy?
A small ceramic pot that usually comes with a lid
What is a crucible?
A group of living things whose members can reproduce to create viable offspring
What is a species?
A substance which changes its volume and shape
What is a gas?
The first scientist to discover another planet's Moon
Who was Galileo Galilei?
The source of almost all energy on Earth
What is the Sun?