Vocabulary
Parts of a System
Science Investigation or Engineering Task
Examples
100

Designing Solutions to solve problems

What is Engineering ?

100

_____ leaves the system.

What are Outputs?

100

Asking Questions

What is a Scientific Investigation?

100

Shrimp, Coral, and Algae in the sea would be considered as

What are components?

200

interacting parts working together

What is a system?

200

_____ enters the system

What are Inputs?

200

Observe and Measure

What is a Scientific Investigation?

200

Hot air entering an AC unit from the outside.

What is an input?

300

A smaller system inside of a bigger one 

What is a subsystem?

300

_____ shows system limits 

What are boundaries?

300

Improving what works

What is an Engineering Task?

300

brakes in a car 

What is a subsystem?

400

________ help people represent systems in ways that are easier to study, test, and communicate.

What are models?

400

the parts of the system that interact to do a job

What are components?

400

Controlling Conditions in an Experiment

What is a Scientific Task?

400

Food webs, Diagrams, and Graphs

What are Models?

500

_____ and _______ are interdependent. We investigate to understand. We design to solve. 

What is Science and Engineering ?

500

one system inside of another can form 

What are Larger Systems 

500

Solving Problems

What is an Engineering Task?

500

A Human Being

What is a system?