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Ancient Science
Scientific Inquiry
Analyzing Experiments
Science & Technology
History of Life
100
A primitive form of paper made from long leafed plans of the same name.
What is papyrus?
100
An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question
What is a Hypothesis?
100
The variable or part of the experiment to which all others can be compared.
What is a control?
100
A device that reduces the amount of force needed to perform a task or changes the direction of a force
What is a simple machine?
100
The study of past human life as revealed by preserved relics
What is archeology?
200
Seeds from this plant would be eaten by people to provide pain relief.
What is the poppy plant?
200
A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data
What is a theory?
200
Experiments in which the participants do not know whether or not they are part of the control group
What is a blind study?
200
A push or pull that changes the motion of an object
What is force?
200
Objects made by humans such as tools, weapons, containers.
What are artifacts?
300
The father of life science
Who is Aristotle?
300
An example that contradicts a scientific conclusion
What is a counter example?
300
Experiments in which neither the participants nor the people analyzing the results know who is in the control group.
What is a double blind study?
300
The length of a straight line that travels from one side of a circle to another while passing through the center of the circle.
What is diameter?
300
The study of earth's history as revealed in the rocks that make up the earth
What is Geology?
400
The inventor of the telescope
Who is Galileo Galilei?
400
A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data.
What is scientific law?
400
Data that is not subject to opinion and is measurable
What is objective data?
400
The distance around a circle, equal to 3.14 times the circles diameter.
What is circumference?
400
The study of life's history as revealed in the preserved remains of once-living plants and animals.
What is paleontology?
500
The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living things.
What is spontaneous generation
500
Electricity can pass through a substance without losing energy.
What is superconductivity?
500
Data that is collected that depends to some extent on the opinions of the people analyzing the data
What is subjective data?
500
An inclined wrapped around an axle
What is a screw?
500
The process of counting tree rings to determine the age of a tree
What is dendrochronology?