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Vocabulary
Study of Science
Cycles
Variables
Miscellaneous
100
Description of how close a measurement is to the actual or true value
What is accuracy?
100
The natural sciences are normally divided into the life, earth/space, and ________________.
What is physical science?
100

Precipitation that infiltrates through soil into underground layers of rock, sand, and gravel is stored as

What is ground water?

100

What should you ask yourself when looking for an independent variable in an experiment?

What is, "What am I changing?"

100
What you use to record and display your data when looking for relationships among the variables.
What is a data table or graph?
200
After makings observations you begin to draw these conclusions.
What is an inference?
200
The type of data the scientists record from making observations based on measurements in science?
What is quantitative data?
200

makes up 78% of the volume of the atmosphere

What is Nitrogen

200

What should you ask yourself when looking for a dependent variable in an experiment? 

What is, "What am I measuring?"

200
After making observations and inferences you create this which is a possible explanation of your observations and can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
300
The investigation and exploration of natural events that occur in the world around us.
What is science?
300
A representation of something in the natural world, typically too small or large to study up close.
What is a model?
300

All organic compounds are characterized by the presence of

What is carbon?

300
The variables that remain the same for all trial in an investigation so that the experiment can be VALID.
What are the constant variable?
300

If your hypothesis is proven correct this is the next step in the process.

What is communicate your results. 

400

Increases a change to a system in the same direction

What is a positive feedback loop?

400
DAILY DOUBLE: Name three reliable sources that can be used when conducting research (as you will be doing for science fair).
What are the Internet (.org, .gov, .edu websites), encyclopedia, nonfiction books, scientific periodicals/articles, or publications of other scientists' work?
400

Where do animals get nitrogen from

What are plants?

400
Name the control to the following experiment. How does the amount of water effect the growth of a plant?
What is no water?
400

What is the kind of graph we use to describe human population growth over time?

What is an exponential graph?

500

The air people breathe resides in the lowermost layer of the atmosphere called the

What is the trophosphere?

500
Explain how to design a valid experiment.
What is to create experiment procedures that help to answer the problem question? OR What is to carefully design/control the variables in an experinment (constant, IV, DV)?
500

Shows how certain elements and compounds move through the environment and are continually used and recycled.

What is the biogeochemical cycle. 

500
DAILY DOUBLE: How does parachute size effect the rate of a falling object? The independent variable. The dependent variable.
What is the size of the parachute? What is the rate of a falling object?
500

Three applications of science.

Many possible answers.