Vocabulary 1
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
The responding variable.
This branch of chemistry focuses on the study of the atom carbon.
What is organic chemistry
This step of the scientific method involves taking information from your research and making a guess for what you observed.
What is forming a hypothesis?
This step should be performed before calculating an answer to a numeric problem.
What is analyze the problem?
The study of the composition of matter and the changes that matter undergoes.
What is chemistry?
A well-tested explanation for a broad set of observations.
What is scientific theory?
This branch of chemistry focuses on the mechanism, rate, and transfer of energy when matter undergoes a change.
What is physical chemistry?
This is the second step of the scientific method. An observation always leads to this step.
What is asking a question?
What is a model?
The pursuit of chemical knowledge for its own sake.
What is pure chemistry?
The ability to obtain information through your senses.
What is observation?
This branch of chemistry focuses on chemicals that do not contain carbon.
What is inorganic chemistry?
This part of the scientific method involves performing an experiment.
What is testing a hypothesis?
This type of chemist would identify the type of paint chips found at the scene of a hit-and-run accident.
What is an analytical chemist?
The means by which a society provides its members with things needed and desired.
What is technology?
A concise statement that summarizes the results of many observations and experiments.
What is scientific law?
This branch of chemistry focuses on studying the composition of matter.
What is analytical chemistry?
This step involves gathering data from an experiment and analyzing it.
What is analyze data?
This type of chemist would be a practicing physician.
What is a biochemist?
Research that is directed toward a practical goal or application.
What is applied chemistry?
The manipulated variable.
What is the independent variable?
This branch of chemistry focuses on the processes taking place inside living organisms.
What is biochemistry?
This is the very first step of the scientific method. It involves taking in information.
What is observation?
This scientist changed chemistry from the science of observation to the science of measurement that it is today.
Who is Lavoisier?