Vocabulary
The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment
What is Science?
A triangle with no equal sides.
What is a Scalene Triangle?
The scientist that conducted the sterilized broth experiment and discovered pasteurization.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
The Indian tribe indigenous to Florida
What are the Seminole Indians?
Egg, pupa, larvae, adult. This is an example of what.
What is Metamorphosis?
A thing that is indisputably true.
What is a fact?
An angle less than 90 Degrees
What is an acute angle?
The group in an experiment or study that does not receive treatment by the researchers and is then used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested subjects do.
What is a control group?
This famous rider rode all night to deliver the news that the British were invading.
Who is Paul Revere?
This is the only mammal that can fly.
What are Bats?
A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
What is an Opinion?
An angle greater than 90 Degrees.
What is an obtuse angle?
The group in an experiment or study that does receive treatment by the researchers.
What is the experimental group?
This group populated the Yucatan peninsula and built very tall pyramids before being invaded by the Spaniards and wiped out.
Who were the Mayans?
This fish lives inside of Anemones.
What are Clown Fish?
Formal or systematic examination or research
What is Investigation?
A parallelogram with two sets of equal sides and four 90 Degree angles.
What is a Rectangle?
This must be done after completing an initial experiment.
What is re-test conclusions?
The search for this was what lead the Spanish to the "New World".
What is gold?
This animal has a "third eye" on the top of its head and a specialized gland to excrete the extra salt it ingests.
What is a Marine Iguana?
The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.
What is evidence?
A triangle with equal sides and angles under 90 Degrees.
What is an equilateral acute triangle?
The four steps of an experiment.
1. Observation
2. Prediction
3. Evidence
4. Explanation
The name of the road that connected China to the rest of the developed world.
What is the Silk Road?
These small furry mammals have teeth that do not stop growing and can range in weight from less than an ounce to 150 lbs.
What are rodents?