Nature of Science
A testable prediction about what you think will happen in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
This cycle moves water through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
This organ helps break down food in the digestive system.
What is the stomach?
This force pulls objects toward Earth.
What is gravity?
This organ stores urine before it leaves the body.
What is the bladder?
A process used to conduct experiments and make discoveries, including steps like observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and conclusion.
What is the scientific method?
This is the name of our galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
This is the process plants use to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
When two equal forces act in opposite directions, the forces are said to be this.
what is a balanced force?
Information obtained through the senses.
What is an observation?
A variable that the scientist manipulates in an experiment.
What is an independent variable?
These are the three main climate zones.
What is temperate, tropical, and polar?
This is the term for the transfer of energy from the sun through producers to consumers.
What is the food chain?
This process happens when a solid turns into a liquid.
What is melting?
This is the term for the process of a seed beginning to grow.
In an experiment, this group does not receive the test variable.
What is a CONTROL GROUP?
This is the reason stars appear to move across the night sky.
What is Earth's rotation?
This organ filters waste from the blood.
What is the kidney?
This is the name for the smallest parts of matter, too small to be seen without magnification.
What are atoms?
This is the unit used to measure force.
What is a Newton (N)?
This is the difference between repetition and replication in science.
What is repetition is repeating your own trials, while replication is when others repeat your experiment?
A natural resource that can be replenished. This is an example. (Requires two answers)
What is a renewable resource?
Examples: solar, wind, water (hydropower)
This is the term for a behavior animals are born with.
What is an instinct?
This happens when a greater force is applied to an object.
What is a greater change in motion?
This is the term for a change that creates a new substance.
What is a chemical change?