Science & Engineering
Tools of Inquiry
Nature of Matter
Changes in Matter
Miscellaneous
100

What field is dedicated to solving technical problems and improving systems?

Engineering

100

What do you use to organize your data in scientific experiments?

Data table

100

What do you call a substance that is made up entirely of one kind of atom?

Element

100

What changes indicate that a physical change has happened?

Size, temperature

100

What charge does a neutron have?

Neutral (zero)
200

What do you call a limitation of an engineering design project?

Constraint

200

What do we use in science to physically represent a system of ideas/processes?

A model
200

What do you call a substance that is made up of 2 or more different kinds of atoms?

Compound

200

What changes indicate that a chemical change has happened?

Color, smell, creation of gas

200

Give an example of a compound.

H20, CO, CO2, C6H12O6

300

What do you call a decision you make based on evidence?

Conclusion

300

What kind of chart would you use to show data as proportions (pieces) of a whole?

Circle graph, Pie chart

300

Which particle has a positive charge?

Proton

300

The wax burning on a candle produces carbon dioxide. What kind of change is this?

Chemical

300

If an atom has 4 protons and 2 neutrons, how many electrons would it need to be stable?

4

400

What are the things being changed in a scientific experiment?

Variables

400

What do you call data that has to do with numbers?

Quantitative

400

What is the chemical symbol of oxygen?

O

400

When air pressure is lower, what happens to the boiling point of water?

Boiling point is lower

400

What do you call the change of state that happens when solid changes to a gas, skipping the liquid state?

Sublimation

500

What is this statement an example of?

"If corn plants get more fertilizer, then they will make bigger ears of corn"

Hypothesis

500

What do you call the line that shows general trends on a scatterplot?

Line of best fit

500

What is the group on the very right end (group 18) of the periodic table called?

Noble gases

500

List 3 different changes of state.

Freezing, melting, evaporation, sublimation, deposition, condensation

500

What do you call the area around the atom that electrons can exist in?

Electron cloud