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What is Science?
Scientists
Scientific Methods
Measuring
The Solar System
100
The study of the natural world. It involves making observations and performing investigations.
What is Science?
100
These scientists ask questions about how the universe works. They study the stars.
What is an astronomer?
100
An investigation in which all of the conditions are controlled. This is a procedure used to test a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
100
Something that is too small to see with the naked eye.
What is microscopic?
100
This is made up of a star and planets and other space objects that revolve around it.
What is a solar system?
200
A procedure carried out to carefully observe, study, or test something in order to learn more about it.
What is an investigation?
200
A scientist who studies weather.
What is a meteorologist?
200
Scientists do this when they cannot experiment on the real thing.
What is using models?
200
A tool used to measure mass.
What is a balance?
200
A large, round body that revolves around a star.
What is a planet?
300
Information collected during a scientific investigation.
What is evidence?
300
A scientist who studies the earth.
What is geologist?
300
Scientists use this method when investigating processes in nature that they can observe but can't control.
What is repeated observations?
300
A tool used to measure force.
What is a spring scale?
300
These planets are called the gas giants because they are huge and made up mostly of gases.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
400
A personal belief that does not need proof.
What is an opinion?
400
These scientists identify types of living things and classify them by how they are related.
What is a taxonomist?
400
A statement, based on information, about a future event.
What is a prediction?
400
When a measure is close to the true size, it is _______.
What is accurate?
400
A nearly round body whose orbit crosses the orbits of other bodies.
What is a dwarf planet?
500
An idea or a conclusion based on an observation.
What is an inference?
500
These scientists investigate questions about plants. They also study how environmental conditions affect a plant's life cycle.
What is a botanist?
500
Any condition in an experiment that can be changed.
What is a variable?
500
The measurement for the force of gravity, or weight needed to move an object.
What is a newton?
500
Rock and iron objects that orbit the sun.
What are asteroids?