Science Basics
A statement of what you think will happen during an investigation
What is a hypothesis?
A full orbit of an object around another object
What is a revolution?
A place that provides all the things an organism needs to live
What is a habitat?
The force of attraction between any two objects
What is gravity?
When measurements are consistently repeated
What is an observation?
What is a rotation
All the living and nonliving things in an area
What is an ecosystem?
A push or a pull that acts on an object
What is a force?
Information from which a conclusion can be drawn and a prediction can be made
What is data?
Objects or ideas that represent other things
What is a model?
An explosive eruption of waves and particles into space
What is a solar flare?
A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time
What is a population?
When measurements are close to a known measurement
Something that can change in a test or experiment
What is a variable?
A natural object that revolves around a planet
What is a moon?
An organism that cannot make its own food
What is a consumer?
The tendency of an object to resist any change in motion
What is inertia?
A tool used to measure or compare mass
What is a balance
A standard against which change can be measured
What is a control group?
The four planets farthest from the sun in our solar system (as a group)
An organism that is eaten by another organism
What is prey?
Motion where the speed and direction do not change
What is uniform motion?
A tool used to make objects appear much larger
What is a microscope?