Science basics
The study of the natural world through observation and experimentation.
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?
The three states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
A pure substance made of only one type of atom.
What is an element?
The branch of science that studies matter, energy, and their interactions.
What is physics?
Scientists do this to check if a hypothesis is correct.
What is testing the hypothesis?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
This state has a definite shape and volume.
What is a solid?
A substance formed when two or more elements chemically combine.
What is a compound?
A testable explanation or prediction.
What is a hypothesis?
Scientists must do this before sharing their results with others.
What is analyzing data / concluding?
The amount of space an object takes up.
What is volume?
The change of state from liquid to gas.
What is evaporation?
A combination of substances that are not chemically combined.
What is a mixture?
Information collected from observations and experiments.
What is data?
A representation used to explain ideas or processes.
What is a scientific model?
Mass divided by volume.
What is density?
The change of state from gas to liquid.
What is condensation?
A mixture where one substance dissolves in another.
What is a solution?
A rule that describes a pattern in nature but does not explain why it happens.
What is scientific law?
These help scientists understand things that are too small, large, or complex to observe directly.
What are models?
A change that does not create a new substance.
What is a physical change?
The law that states pressure and volume are related in gases.
What is Boyle’s Law?
The substance that gets dissolved in a solution.
What is a solute?