Vocabulary
Something you can directly see, sense, or measure.
What is an observation?
A testable prediction.
What is a hypothesis?
The base unit for length in the SI system.
What is a meter?
The factor in an experiment that is manipulated or changed by the investigator.
What is the independent variable?
It is something that repeats in form or time.
What is a pattern?
After makings observations you begin to draw these conclusions.
What is an inference?
One way to write a hypothesis is to use these three prompts.
What is if...then...because?
A tool used to measure mass in science.
What is the triple beam balance or scale?
The factor measured or observed during an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
Different measures of size or time.
What is scale?
The investigation and exploration of natural events that occur in the world around us.
What is science?
In scientific argumentation, when you make a claim, you need to back it up with these 2 things.
What are evidence and reasoning?
The measure of the amount of space an object takes up.
What is volume?
The variables that remain the same for all trials in an investigation.
What are control variables?
It is 2 or more parts making a whole thing.
What is a system?
A well-supported explanation of the natural world (hint: explains WHY something happens).
What is a theory?
The type of observations made from measuring or counting exact amounts.
What are quantitative?
This is the base SI unit for volume.
What is liter?
It is the independent variable to the following experiment: How does the amount of water effect the growth of a plant?
What is the amount of water?
Structure determines this.
What is function?
Describes a basic principle of nature that always occurs under certain conditions (hint: explains HOW something happens).
What is (scientific) law?
The type of observations that cannot be measured or counted.
What are qualitative?
Newtons is the base unit for this property of matter.
What is force?
It is the dependent variable in the following experiment: How does parachute size effect the rate of a falling object?
What is the rate of a falling object?
It is the rate at which an object or system changes or stays the same.
What is stability?