The Scientific Method
This is what every scientific investigation begins with.
What is a question?
A bicycle helmet is an example of this category of technology.
What is safety technology?
This is the galaxy that contains our solar system.
What is the Milky Way?
This tool measures air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
This is a fancy word for "proof", and describes information we gather using our senses that can be tested.
What is evidence?
This part of an experiment stays the same so results are fair.
What is the control (or a controlled variable)?
These people design solutions to human problems using science and math.
Who are engineers?
These outer planets all have rings made of rock and ice.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This process happens when water vapor cools and forms droplets.
What is condensation?
This skill involves grouping objects by shared characteristics.
What is classifying?
This is the educated guess a scientist writes before testing.
What is a hypothesis?
This early step in the engineering design process involves building a working model to test an idea.
What is a prototype?
This term describes the path a planet follows around the Sun.
What is an orbit?
This tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
This is water falling from the sky.
What is precipitation?
This tool is the most accurate way to measure 38 mL of water.
What is a graduated cylinder?
This step of the engineering design process involves improving a design after testing it and finding problems.
What is redesigning?
This huge cloud of gas and dust is where stars are born.
What is a nebula?
This type of front often brings quick thunderstorms and a sudden temperature drop.
What is a cold front?
When warm and cold air masses meet, this boundary forms and determines upcoming weather.
What is a front?
These ensure that results are reliable and not just luck.
What are repeated tests / repeated trials?
This is the term for the cons or downsides of a new technology.
What are risks?
In a scale model of the solar system, these planets are much closer together than the rest.
What are the inner planets?
Meteorologists rely on this type of map, which shows air pressure patterns, fronts, and symbols that help predict future weather.
What is a weather map?
This is the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way, and is on a collision course with it!
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?