Science Basics
The study of the natural world using observations and experiments
What is Science?
The first step of the scientific method
What is asking a question?
Anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter?
A change that does not make a new substance
What is a physical change?
The force of gas particles hitting a surface
What is pressure?
The branch of science that studies matter and energy
What is Physical Science?
A testable explanation
What is a hypothesis?
The amount of matter in an object
What is mass?
A change that makes a new substance
What is a chemical change?
A law that explains pressure and volume
What is Boyle’s Law?
The two main branches of physical science
What are chemistry and physics?
Testing a hypothesis by doing an experiment
What is experimenting?
The space an object takes up
What is volume?
A characteristic you can observe without changing the substance
What is a physical property?
A law that explains temperature and volume
What is Charles’s Law?
Information collected during an experiment
What is data?
The results of an experiment explained
What is a conclusion?
Mass divided by volume
What is density?
A property that describes how a substance reacts
What is a chemical property?
What increases when gas particles move faster
What is temperature?
A rule that describes what happens in nature
What is a scientific law?
Repeating an experiment to check results
What is repeating trials?
The curved surface of a liquid in a graduated cylinder
What is the meniscus?
Rust forming on iron is a example of
What is a chemical change?
What happens to gas volume when pressure increases
What is a decrease in volume?