What is Science?
Science Terms
Conducting an experiment
Models in Science
Potpourri
100

An attempt to explain a pattern observed repeatedly in the natural world.

What is a theory? 

100

The study of living things and how they interact.

What is life science? 

100

Factors that can change in an experiment.

What are variables? 

100

Models you can see and touch.

What are physical models? 

100

Combining what you already know with the new facts that you are given to decide if you should agree with something.

What is critical thinking? 

200

A rule that describes a pattern in nature. 

What is a scientific law? 

200

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

What is matter? 

200

Factors that do not change in an experiment.

What are constants? 

200

Models built using software that can be viewed but not touched.

What are computer models? 

200

A collection of scientific observations.

What is data? 

300

A collection of structures, cycles and processes that relate to and interact with each other.

What is a system? 

300

An educated guess that can be tested with an experiment.

What is a hypothesis? 

300

The variable that is changed in an experiment.

What is the independent variable? 

300

Models made to illustrate ideas or concepts.

What are idea models? 

300

The capital of Indiana.

What is Indianapolis? 

400

This is why science can never answer a question with certainty.

What is people will never know everything about the natural world? 

400

The study of matter and energy.

What is physical science? 

400

To draw a conclusion based on what you observe.

What is to infer/inference? 

400

Any representation of an object or an event used as a tool for understanding the natural world.

What is a model? 

400

He wrote the Cannelton High School song.

Who is Andrew C. Little? 

500

This is how a theory can change.

What is new discoveries are made that contradict the existing theory? 

500

The practical use of science to solve a problem.

What is technology? 

500

The variable that is being tested in an experiment.

What is the dependent variable? 

500

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Name the three types of models.

What are idea, physical, and computer models? 

500

The sixteenth president of the United States of America.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?