Scientific Inquiry
What is the first step in the scientific method?
What is asking a question?
What is the smallest unit of an element?
What is an atom?
What force pulls objects toward Earth?
What is gravity?
What causes day and night?
What is Earth's rotation?
What is the basic unit of life?
What is the cell?
What is a variable that you change in an experiment called?
What is the independent variable?
What are the three main states of matter?
What unit is used to measure force?
What is the Newton?
What causes the seasons?
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
What do we call organisms that make their food?
What are producers
What is the purpose of a control group?
What is the purpose of comparing results and ensuring validity?
What type of energy transformation occurs in a flashlight?
What is chemical to electrical to light energy?
What is Newton's first law of motion?
What is an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon?
What type of rock forms from magma?
What is igneous rock?
What is the function of the mitochondria?
What produces energy for the cell?
Name one way to increase the reliability of an experiment.
What is repeating the experiment or increasing the sample size?
What is the law of conservation of mass?
What is matter that cannot be created or destroyed?
How does mass affect acceleration?
What is more, mass = less acceleration (with the same force)
What process drives the rock cycle?
What are plate tectonics?
What is the process of natural selection?
What is the survival and reproduction of the fittest traits?
How is a hypothesis different from a theory?
A hypothesis is an educated guess; a theory is a well-supported explanation.
What happens to particles during a chemical reaction?
What is the rearrangement to form new substances?
A car goes from 0 to 60 mph in 6 seconds. What is this an example of?
What is acceleration?
How does the moon affect tides on Earth?
What is its gravity pulls on Earth's oceans?
How do traits pass from parents to offspring?
What is through genes in DNA?