Scientific Method
Experiments
Metric System
Measurement
Graphs
100
A systematic approach to problem-solving
What is the scientific method?
100
A proposed solution to a scientific problem
What is a hypothesis?
100
The other name for the metric system
What is the International System of Units (or SI)?
100
The instrument used to measure volume
What is a graduated cylinder?
100
The three types of graphs
What are line graph, bar chart, and pie chart/circle graph?
200
An organized procedure used to test a hypothesis
What is an experiment?
200
A standard for comparison needed to draw a meaningful conclusion
What is a control?
200
The number the metric system is based upon
What is ten?
200
The horizontal and vertical axes (in the correct order)
What are the x and y axes?
300
A truth, something known to be true
What is a fact?
300
The part of the experiment that remain the same
What is a control?
300
The distance between two points
What is length?
300
The curved surface of a liquid in a graduated cylinder
What is the meniscus?
300
The variables plotted on the x-axis and the y-axis (in the correct order)
What are the independent variable and the dependent variable?
400
A logical explanation for the events that occur in nature
What is a theory?
400
The variable being controlled by the experimenter
What is the independent variable?
400
The amount of space an object takes up
What is volume?
400
The two scales used to measure temperature
What are Celsius and Kelvin?
400
A graph used to compare information collected by counting
What is a bar graph?
500
A theory that has been tested many times and is generally accepted as true
What is a scientific law?
500
The variable that depends on the independent variable
What is the dependent variable?
500
The amount of matter in an object
What is mass?
500
The method used to measure the volume of an oddly-shaped object
What is the displacement method?
500
A graph used to show trends or how data changes over time
What is a line graph?