Branches of Science
Branch that involves the study of matter and energy.
What is physical science?
An explanation of events that has not been proven, can still be proved or disproved.
What is a scientific theory?
The first step of scientific inquiry.
What is identify the problem or question?
An observation measured by the quantity of something; countable and measurable.
What is a quantitative observation?
Branch of science that focuses on the study of living organisms, plants and animals.
What is life science?
An inarguable rule that has been proven with 100% certainty.
What is scientific law?
The second step of scientific inquiry.
What is research?
An observation based off of the quality of something. Physical characteristics.
Branch of science that focuses on the features of the Earth, as well as outer space.
What is Earth Science?
An example of scientific theory that explains how Earth moves and changes.
What is theory of plate tectonics?
What is hypothesis?
An educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
Chemistry and physics
Known fact that when you drop an object it will fall to the ground.
What is the law of gravity?
The fourth and fifth step of scientific inquiry.
What are experiment and analyze results?
IRHEADS. The process scientists use to conduct scientific investigation.
What is scientific inquiry?
Geology and astronomy
What is Earth Science?
A hypothesis gets tested over and over again and the outcome continues to support the scientific evidence.
How does something become a theory?
The sixth and seventh step of scientific inquiry.
What are draw conclusions and share results?
The factor in an experiment that is subject to change.
What is a variable?