Scientific Investigation
This means to use your senses to notice details.
What is observe?
Matter with a definite shape and volume.
What is a solid?
This tool makes tiny objects look bigger.
What is a microscope?
A living thing that makes its own food
What is a producer?
This is information collected during an investigation.
What is data?
This is an explanation based on observations.
What is infer?
Energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
This tool measures the volume of liquids.
What is a graduated cylinder?
The process plants use to make food
What is photosynthesis?
This is anything people create or use that helps improve how they live.
What is technology?
This is a statement that can be tested to answer a question.
What is a hypothesis?
When a liquid changes into gas.
What is evaporation?
This tool measures mass in grams.
What is a balance?
An animal that starts life in water and moves to land.
What is an amphibian?
The sun looks larger and brighter than other stars in the sky. Why is this?
This is a test done to gather evidence.
What is an experiment?
A ball sitting at the top of a hill is not moving, but it can roll down at any time. What type of energy does it have?
What is potential energy?
Two students measure how hot water is before and after heating it. What tool do they use, and in what units is the measurement recorded?
What is a thermometer measured in degrees? (Fahrenheit and Celsius)
These plants either produce seeds with cones or produce spores.
What is a non-flowering plant?
What do plants need to make their own food?
What is sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide?
This is something you change during an experiment.
What is a variable?
A cup of water is left outside. Over time, water droplets form on a nearby cold surface. Describe what is happening.
What is condensation?
A student measures a liquid and finds it has a mass of 60 grams and a volume of 20 milliliters. Using the formula density = mass รท volume. Find the density of the liquid.
What is 3 grams per milliliters?
A seed will not begin to grow even though it is planted in soil. After the temperature increases and water is added, the seed finally starts to sprout. This process has now begun.
What is germination?
What is the force that pulls things together? With this force, is it stronger on Earth or the Moon?
What is Gravity? What is the Earth?