Science 1
An organized way of studying things and finding the answers to questions.
What is science?
An explanation of things or events based on scientific knowledge that is the result of many observations or experiments.
What is a theory?
This King of Babylon wrote a system of laws that bears his name.
Who is Hammurabi?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
This is the most important line of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Organization of steps and procedures that apply science to answer questions.
What is the scientific method?
A statement about how things occur in nature that appears to be true all of the time.
What is a law?
This King of Uruk sought immortality but did not find it.
Who is Gilgamesh?
The capital of Ontario.
What is Toronto?
This is a way to map the Earth on a flat surface.
What is a projection?
A prediction that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
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What is the first step in the scientific method?
1200
What is ask the question?
These two rivers are mostly associated with Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
The capital of Venezuela.
What is Caracas?
This is the name for lines that run North to South.
What is longitude?
A standard to which the outcome of a test is compared.
What is a control?
This is the last step of the scientific method?
What is report?
Mesopotamia literally means this.
What is land between the rivers/waters.
These waves cannot move through the vacuum of space.
What are sound waves/longitudinal waves?
This is the most important line of latitude.
What is the Equator?
Something in an experiment that can change.
What is a variable?
These considerations sometimes limit the amount of research a scientist can do because of moral issues.
What are ethical considerations?
This friend of Gilgamesh was killed by Ishtar after he killed the Bull of Heaven.
Who is Enkidu?
The loss of accuracy in the size or position of objects on a map.
What is distortion?
North, South, East and West.
What are the Cardinal Directions?