What Is Science?
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SI Units and Conversions
100

This is a system of knowledge and the methods used to find knowledge.

What is science?

100

Your measurement is very close to the actual value being measured, and your teacher says, "Your measurement is,...."

What is accurate?

100

Use this type of graph when you want to compare the average amount of precipitation in different cities.

What is a bar graph?

100

This is an organized plan for gathering, organizing, and communicating information.

What is the scientific method?

100

This is how many millimeters are in 1 centimeter.

What is 10 millimeters?

200

Obtaining information through the senses

What is observation?

200

0.000075 written in scientific notation

What is 7.5 x 10-5

200

Use this type of graph when you want to compare 1 element that makes up the Earth's crust with all the other elements that make up the crust.

What is a circle graph?

200

This is what you call a pattern or phenomena found in nature that has no explanation of how it works.

What is a scientific law?

200

This is how many millimeters are in one meter.

What is 1,000 millimeters?
300

A statement that summarizes or explains a pattern found in nature

What is a scientific theory?

300

The SI unit of mass

What is the kilogram (kg)?

300

Use this type of graph when you want to show the effect of a manipulated variable on a responding variable.

What is a line graph?

300

Scientists who speak different languages can still understand each other's data. This is because they do have a common "language" for their data.

What is SI? (The International System of Units)

300

This is how many meters there are in 1 kilometer.

What is 1,000 meters?

400

A peer review 

What is a process in which scientists examine other scientists' work?

400

The numbers 75 and 24.33 have different levels of precision. You know that one of them is more precise because,....

What is 24.33? It has more significant figures.

400

This is the type of proportion you have when a manipulated variable increases (or decreases) and the responding variable increases (or decreases).

What is a direct proportion?

400

This is what happens when the data in an investigation do not support the original hypothesis.

What is the hypothesis will be revised?

400

This is how many grams are in 1 kilogram.

What is 1,000 grams?

500

Natural science includes these branches.

What are life science, Earth and space science, and physical science?
500

In Fahrenheit, Celsius, and kelvins water freezes at these temperatures.

What is 32 degrees Fahrenheit, 0 degrees Celsius, and 273 degrees kelvin?

500

This is the type of proportion you have when the manipulated variable increases and the responding variable decreases.

What is an inverse proportion?

500

This is how science and technology are related.

What is advances in science can lead to advances in technology. Advances in technology can lead to advances in science.

500

If the air temperature is 20 degrees Celsius it is also this many degrees kelvin.

What is 293 degrees kelvin?  (20 + 273)