Nature of Science
Technology/Engineering
Chemistry
Physics
Miscellaneous
100
Observations that deal with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers.
What are qualitative observations?
100
Step 5 in the engineering design process.
What is build a prototype?
100
The substance formed when salt is put into water.
What is a homogeneous mixture?
100
The substance formed when salt is put into water.
What is a homogeneous mixture?
100
In designing a product, cost is an example of this.
What is a constraint?
200
Used to measure volume of an irregular solid.
What is a graduated cylinder?
200
Demonstrating a product to consumers is an example of this step of the engineering design process.
What is communicating the solution?
200
Used to measure volume of an irregular solid.
What is a graduated cylinder?
200
HCl and CO2 are examples of this.
What are compounds?
200
Represents the number of protons in an atom.
What is the atomic number?
300
An interpretation based on observations and prior knowledge.
What is inferring?
300
A company makes a sports drink more healthy and it is now less flavorful. What is this representing?
A trade-off
300
An equation that shows how two units of measurement are related.
What is a conversion factor?
300
The major parts of an atom.
What are protons, neutrons, electrons and the nucleus?
300
The actual length of the classroom is 35 ft. The room is measured 3 times and the measurements are: 35.1, 35.0 and 35.2. These measurements are:
Precise and Accurate
400
A representation of a complex process created by scientists.
What is a model?
400
The parts of the universal systems model.
What are goal, process, input, output, feedback?
400
The slope of a line shows this.
What is the change in the dependent (responding) variable in response to the independent (manipulated) variable?
400
The elements in group 18.
What are the noble gases?
400
Identifying good sources of information, applying scientific principles to problems in your everyday life.
What is scientific literacy?
500
A statement that describes how to measure a particular variable or how to define a particular term.
What is operational definition?
500
Two problems with emerging technologies.
They are expensive and they may not work properly.
500
The number of significant figures in the answer to 4.65- 1.0.
What is 2 (3.7)?
500
Heating a cube of ice and measuring the temperature at which it melts is an example of measuring this.
What is a physical property?
500
Melting Point, Density and Boiling point can be used to do this.
What is identify a substance? They are characteristic properties.