Nature of Science
A question that can be answered by designing and conducting an investigation.
What is a testable question?
A characteristic of a substance: texture, color, size, shape, magnetism.
What is a property?
MELTS + C
Mechanical, Electrical, Light, Thermal, Sound, Chemical
What are forms of energy?
Formed from layers of sediment (eroded rock, fossils, materials)
What is sedimentary rock?
Behavior an organism has when it is born?
What is instinct?
an idea about what will happen in the future
What is a prediction (hypothesis?
The amount of space that an object or substance takes up. (graduated cylinder, measuring cup, beaker)
What is volume?
It is how hot or cold an object is.
What is thermal energy?
A resource that nature produces again and again. (water, solar energy, wind)
What is a renewable resource?
Behaviors organisms get based on their environment.
What is learned behavior?
A repeat of a test or an observation.
What is a trial?
A form that matter can take: solid, liquid, or gas.
What are states of matter?
A form of energy produced by vibrating objects.
What is sound energy?
Formed from cooled magma or lava.
What is igneous rock?
All the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
The pieces of information collected in an investigation.
What is data?
A change of a substance from one form to another without changing its chemical properties. (freezing, melting, condensation, evaporation, alter shape, form, size and volume)
What is a physical change?
Moving water that generates electricity.
What is hydroelectricity?
Nature cannot replace quickly enough to meet people's needs. (fossil fuels, rocks, phosphate, silica, limestone)
What is a nonrenewable resource?
The path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
A procedure carried out to carefully observe, study or test something about the natural world.
What is an investigation?
A substance is changed into a new substance with different properties. (burning, rusting, cooking, decay)
What is a chemical change?
A material that allows heat energy or electricity to pass through it easily.
What is a conductor?
Formed over time from existing rock due to extreme heat and/or pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
Organisms that make their own food and organisms that gets energy by eating other organisms.
What is producers & consumers?