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Scientists
Scientific Inquiry
Graphs and Models
Theories and Laws
Wild Card
100
Scientists come from...
What is all kinds of backgrounds?
100
Interpreting observations from what you already know.
What is inferring?
100
Line graphs allow you to identify these.
What is trends?
100
These tend to be well tested and help explain observations.
What is a scientific theory?
100
Amount of matter in a given volume.
What is density?
200
The branch of science that includes the study of living things.
What is life science?
200
Scientists do this when they cannot rely on exact numbers.
What is estimate?
200
This shows how the responding variable changes in response to the manipulated variable.
What is a line graph?
200
What scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions.
What is a scientific law?
200
SI is a version of this system.
What is the metric system?
300
A meteorologist studies in this field of science.
What is earth science?
300
This may cause scientific knowledge to change.
What is new evidence and new interpretations.
300
If weight measures the force of gravity on an object, then mass measures...
What is the amount of matter an object contains?
300
This may cause a scientist to reject a scientific theory.
What is new evidence that contradicts it?
300
These are the things that can change in an experiment.
What are variables?
400
Scientists possess this when they report results truthfully and accurately.
What is ethics?
400
A possible explanation for a set of observations.
What is a hypothesis?
400
Scientists may use these to examine models of complex systems.
What is a computer program?
400
When considering how something may impact people or the environment, a scientist is showing this quality.
What is ethics?
400
This is an observation that deals with numbers and amounts.
What is quantitative observation?
500
Includes the study of the stars.
What is earth and space science?
500
When you apply a general idea to a specific observation.
What is deductive reasoning?
500
A group of parts that work together to carry our a function.
What is a system?
500
When a scientist doubts that a theory is correct, they are showing this quality.
What is skepticism?
500
Grouping items that are similar to each other.
What is classifying?