Matter and it's properties
The simplest form of matter.
What is an element?
The ability to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
The layer of gases that surrounds Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Planned steps that scientists follow in experiments and other investigations.
What is the scientific method?
A push or pull that can cause an object to move, stop, or change direction.
What is force?
The smallest particle of an element that retains the properties of that element.
What is an atom?
Type of energy associated with moving objects.
What is kinetic energy?
The layer of Earth made up of solid rock, soil, and sediments.
What is the lithosphere?
A scientific explanation that can be tested by further observation or experimentation.
What is a hypothesis?
An object's tendency to resist changes in motion.
What is inertia?
A substance made of two or more elements chemically combined in a fixed ratio.
What is a compound?
The bending of waves around the edge of an obstacle.
What is diffraction?
The water cycle is driven by this form of energy from the sun.
What is solar energy?
Data that can be counted or measured and numerically expressed.
What are quantitative data?
The force that attracts a body toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
This state of matter has definite volume but no definite shape.
What is a liquid?
Energy form that travels in waves and can move through the vacuum of space.
What is electromagnetic radiation?
A naturally occurring solid material from which a metal or valuable mineral can be extracted profitably.
What is an ore?
An idea that has been tested, revised, and confirmed through extensive research and has become widely accepted in the scientific community.
What is a scientific theory?
The resistance an object encounters while moving over another.
What is friction?
The measure of the amount of matter in an object, often confused with weight.
What is mass?
The rate at which a wave's energy moves through a given area.
What is intensity?
A process in which plants, algae, and some bacteria take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
The variable in an experiment that is deliberately manipulated.
What is the independent variable?
The law stating that an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by a net external force.
What is Newton's first law of motion?