Nature of Science
A prediction of what will happen based on background information
Hypothesis
Characteristics: mass, volume, color, texture, temperature, hardness, shape, odor, taste, magnetic, sink, float
Properties
Phase of matter that keeps its shape; molecules are very close together
Solid
How warm or cold the air is
Air ___________
Air temperature
A climate zone that has very little precipitation and extremely cold temperature
Polar zone
Multiple sets of measurements or observations in a scientific investigations scientific instruments
Trials
Anything that takes up space and has mass
Matter
The measure of the force of gravity on matter
Weight
Humidity
An area on the Earth that has hot, wet weather and lots of different kinds of plants and animals.
_______ Zone
Tropical zone
Variable that responds to the change - what you are measuring
Dependent variables
The form that matter takes; gas, liquid, solid
States of Matter
The gas state that cannot be seen
_____ ______
Water Vapor
Air temperature, humidity, wind speed/direction, precipitation, and air pressure in a place on a certain day
Weather
has warm summers and mild winters with trees and plants - between tropic and polar zones
Temperate Zone
What is the one thing that is changed? (hint: variable)
Independent variable
The amount of space an object or substance takes up
Volume
A change of matter that still has the SAME chemical makeup, does NOT become new matter
Physical change
The average patter of weather that occurs in a certain location over many years.
Climate
Height of land above sea level
Elevation
What is the group in an experiment that compares to the other groups? (hint: the group that is standard or normally done)
Controlled Group
The amount of matter an object or substance has
Mass
Process when matter is changed into different matter with different properties
Chemical change
All the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment
Ecosystem
Half the Earth - Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western
Hemisphere