Nature of Science
This skill or data collection process forms the basis for establishing claims.
What is empirical evidence?
An organism that makes it own food from its environment.
What is a producer?
Precipitation, Surface Runoff, Evaporation and Condensation
What is the water cycle?
The natural tendency of objects in motion to stay in motion and objects at rest to stay at rest.
What is inertia?
Major concepts develop over time and are subject to revision in light of new evidence.
What is the tentative nature of science?
A structure that is found in a plant cell, but not in an animal cell.
What is a cell wall? Or, what is chloplast?
What is the periodic table of elements?
Energy increases as the temperature of a substance rises, due to the faster movement of its molecules
What is radiation?
This property of light determines the color of an opaque object.
What reflection?
The application of tools, materials, processes and systems to solve problems and extend human capabilities
What is technology?
The chemical process in which a green plant uses energy from the sun to store chemical potential energy.
What is photosynthesis?
An object must be less than 1.0 grams/ cm^3 to float.
What is density?
Fossil A is several layers above fossil B in a series of undisturbed sedimentary layers.
What is superposition?
Caused by the effect of 2 objects moving against each other.
What is friction?
Explanations for a set of related phenomena, based on observations and inferences from different data points.
What is a scientific theory?
In this cellular division process, the daughter cells have the same number of chromosomes as the parent cells.
What is a mitosis?
A chemical or physical process that releases heat.
What is an exothermic reaction?
Convection, conduction, and radiation
What is thermal energy transfer?
An invisible force exerted on all objects that have mass
What is gravity?
A systematic approach that a scientist uses to investigate, problem solve and understand the processes/ systems and matter within our Universe.
What is creativity?
A biological process that occurs in cells to break down glucose and oxygen to produce energy, carbon dioxide, and water.
What is respiration?
0-6.9 is Acidic, 7 is Neutral and 8-14 is Basic
What is the pH scale?
1% Trace, 21% Oxygen and 78% Nitrogen
What is air (earth's atmosphere)?
Energy changes forms but the total amount remains constant in a closed system.
What is conservation of energy?