Vocabulary
This variable is designed in an experiment to change.
What is the independent variable?
The building blocks of substances were called this word, still in use today.
What are the elements?
All chemistry research begins with this.
What are observations or questions?
A cylinder used to measure liquds, usually marked in milliliters.
What is a graduated cylinder?
This takes up space and has mass
What is matter?
The act of gathering information.
What are observations?
Information was coded in these so that others could not steal their knowledge.
What are symbols?
A tentative explanation for what has been observed.
What is the hypothesis?
The observation technique of smelling a substance.
What is wafting?
This gas is a form of matter.
Air, oxygen, helium, carbon dioxide, etc.
In experiments, standards of comparison are known as these.
What are the controlls?
The Father of modern chemistry.
Who is Robert Boyle?
A summary of accepted facts in nature.
What is scientific law?
What are goggles?
An example of nonmatter.
Energy Forms, Emotions, Senses, Abstract Ideas
The quantitative measurement of matter.
What is mass?
To change a substance from one to another.
What is transmutation?
A hypothesis supported by many experiments.
What is a theory?
A glass container with a narrow neck and wide base.
What is an Erlenmeyer Flask?
The measure of matter AND the effect of gravity on it.
What is weight?
The science of matter and its behavior.
What is chemistry?
The substance believed to impart immortality.
What is the Philosopher's Stone?
A set of controlled observations that test the hypothesis.
What is the experiment?
A small round plate that can be used as a dish or cover.
What is a watch glass?
This instrument is used to obtain the measure of mass.
What is the balance?