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Science Essentials
The Process of Science
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The base metric unit for length.
What is a meter?
100
A list of steps that scientists can use to conduct a single experiment.
What is the Scientific Method?
100
The event which began the Universe.
What is the Big Bang?
100
The name of our galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
100
The study of our Universe.
What is astronomy?
200
The study of Earth's atmosphere, weather, and climate.
What is meteorology?
200
The first step in the basic scientific method.
What is "Ask a Question"?
200
The approximate age of the Universe.
What is 13-14 billion years old?
200
The distance that light travels in one year.
What is a light-year?
200
All the wavelengths of light are represented in this.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
300
The type of graph used when analyzing trends over time.
What is a line graph?
300
The variable we measure in an experiment.
What is a dependent variable?
300
The scientist who discovered that galaxies were moving away from each other, therefore the Universe is expanding.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
300
The type of galaxy with no defined shape.
What is an irregular galaxy?
300
The three subatomic particles formed within minutes after the Big Bang.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
400
The number of centimeters in one meter.
What is 100 cm?
400
The "heart of the scientific process".
What is "Testing Ideas"?
400
An equation that explains the conversion of energy into matter after the Big Bang.
What is e = mc^2?
400
The type of galaxy with old stars and shaped like a flattened ball.
What is an elliptical galaxy?
400
The study of objects in space using the light they emit.
What is spectroscopy?
500
The four branches of Earth Science.
What are astronomy, geology, meteorology, and oceanography.
500
An idea that is tested, based on evidence, and regarded as true within the scientific community.
What is a scientific theory?
500
The "first light" of the Universe that emerged shortly after (~380,000 years) after the Big Bang.
What is Cosmic Background Radiation?
500
The phenomena observed by Hubble when looking at galaxies moving away from each other.
What is a red shift?
500
The characteristic of visible light that determines the color of an object.
What is wavelength?