Branches of Science
Equipment
Saftey
Mixtures and separation
Vocabulary
100
The study of living things.
What is Biology?
100
Equipment used to provide heat.
What is a bunsen burner?
100
Piece of equipment which protects your eyes.
What are safety glasses?
100
Separation of an insoluble substance from a liquid using a very fine sieve.
What is filtration?
100
The substance that does the dissolving.
What is the solvent?
200
The study of materials and reactions and how they can be used.
What is Chemistry?
200
Equipment used to measure out an accurate amount of liquid.
What is a measuring cylinder?
200
Piece of equipment that protects the bench.
What is a heat mat?
200
A simple method of separation where liquid is poured off sediment.
What is decanting?
200
The variable in the experiment that is measured.
What is dependent variable?
300
The study of how things move and the forces and energy involved.
What is Physics?
300
Equipment used to hold a test tube.
What is a test tube holder or test tube rack?
300
Piece of equipment that protects your hands from hot objects.
What are mittens?
300
A method of separation where only the solute is left behind when the solvent is heated.
What is evaporation or boiling?
300
The part of the experiment report that analyses the results.
What is the discussion?
400
The study of how living things affect each other and the environment in which they live.
What is Ecology?
400
The part of the bunsen burner that is moved to change the type of flame.
What is the collar or sleeve?
400
The correct way to smell objects in the science laboratory.
What is wafting?
400
A method of separation where a distillate is collected.
What is distillation?
400
A logical explanation as to what happened and why it happened.
What is an inference?
500
The study of what fossils tell us about the ecologies of the past, about evolution, and about our place, as humans, in the world.
What is Paleontology?
500
A device used to measure mass of an object.
What is a mass balance or triple beam balance?
500
Where broken glass is put.
What is the glass bin?
500
A technique used to separate dyes and ink into colours.
What is chromatography?
500
Measurements that involve numbers.
What is a quantitative measurement?
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