Vocabulary 1
Something that reduces or restrains a desired result
What is a limitation?
A career in which people design solutions to problems
What is engineering?
A _________ hypothesis is specific and identifies a cause and effect relationship.
What is testable?
A ___________ is used to measure the volume of liquids.
What is a graduated cylinder?
This graph best displays percentages of a whole
Conditions or qualities that are necessary
What is criteria?
Able to be determined as true or false through an investigation
What is testable?
Scientists analyze the results of an investigation and use logical ______ to make a claim.
What is reasoning?
The metric units for volume are ______ and ______.
What are liters and milliliters?
This graph is best used for comparing amounts from different sources.
What is a bar graph?
The use of facts and observations to come to a conclusion
What is reasoning?
A type of magnet that is made by adding electricity to an iron-containing object
What is an electromagnet?
It is important to collect data using a single _______ of measure.
What is system?
Thermometers and rules measure quantitative or qualitative data?
Wha tis quantitative?
This graph shows change over time
What is a line graph?
Able to be done
What is feasible?
Systems that deliver information
What is media?
Use a thermometer to measure temperature in _____ Celsius or Fahrenheit.
What is degrees?
A pan balance is used to measure what two things?
What are mass and weight?
The ______ variable does not depend on any of the other categories.
What is independent?
Relating to the characteristic or quality of something
What is qualitative?
Relating to the numerical amount of something
What is quantitative?
Name a unit of measurement for length in the metric system.
What is Meters....Centimeters etc?
A pan balance gives quantitative or qualitative data when two things are compared (heavier...lighter)?
What is qualitative?
Name the three reasons engineers develop new technology or work on existing technology.