Scientific Investigation
What is an educated guess or prediction in an experiment?
hypothesis
Which plant part is responsible for absorbing nutrients and water from the soil?
roots
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars are all this type of planet.
terrestrial
In which state of matter are the particles close together and they slowly vibrate?
Solid
What is the biggest planet in the solar system?
Jupiter
What are the things that are kept the same in an experiment called?
constants
Which part of the plant is like a straw? It transports water and nutrients throughout the plant.
stem
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune are all this type of planet.
gas giants
What is the smallest particle of matter?
atom
What is the phase of matter with no definite shape or volume? The particles can fly around freely.
What is the one thing that the experimenter (I) changes during an experiment?
independent variable
Which plant part is where photosynthesis takes place?
leaf
Which phase of the moon is lit up on the LEFT side?
last quarter / third quarter
When heat is taken away and a liquid becomes a solid that is called...
freezing
What is the amount of matter in an object? You can measure it in grams using a scale.
mass
What are the numbers and measurements that you collect during an experiment called?
data
Which plant part is responsible for reproduction of the plant?
flower
When an object orbits around another object.
revolution
What is called when heat is added and a liquid becomes a gas?
evaporation
What is something that BOTH plants and animals MUST do in order to SURVIVE?
reproduce
What is the thing that changes in the experiment that you measure or observe?
dependent variable
What are the products (or results) of photosynthesis?
oxygen and glucose/sugar
When an object spins on its axis.
rotation
What is it called when heat is taken away and a gas becomes a liquid?
condensation
This is caused by the moon and sun's gravitational pull. It is when the ocean water gets higher and lower.
Tides