Scientific Inquiry
The first step in Scientific Inquiry.
What is ask a question?
This is used to make quick calculations.
What is a calculator?
These are the most commonly used base units in class.
What are Grams, Liters, and Meters?
The factor that one wants to test.
What is an independent variable?
The many non-zero digits should be to the left of the decimal in Scientific Notation.
What is one?
This should be done after a hypothesis has been disproven.
What is revise the hypothesis and retest?
This is arguably one of the most important scientific tools found in a lab.
What are safety goggles?
The prefix da- stands for this measurement.
What is deka?
What is an experimental group?
This communicates how many time a decimal moves.
What is the exponent?
A hypothesis should be written in this kind of statement.
What is an if/then statement?
What is a spring scale?
There are 100 grams in this measurement.
What is a hectogram?
This is a logical explanation of an observation that is drawn from prior knowledge or experience.
What is inference?
These are the key number of digits needed in scientific notation (unless otherwise instructed).
What are significant figures?
This states why or how an event occurred.
What is Scientific Theory?
This is a very important, though often overlooked, tool in scientific inquiry.
What is a science journal?
Name the beverage King Henry drank and the measurements prefixes that correspond.
What is chunky milk and centi and milli prefixes?
This is the investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new information that results from those investigations.
What is science?
When moving from scientific to standard notation, a negative exponent directs the decimal to move in this direction.
What is left?
Name one of the three possible outcomes of Scientific Inquiry.
New materials and technology
New objects or events
Answers to questions
This is used to measure mass.
What is a balance?
500 cL converts to this many daL.
What is .5 daL?
These two sciences study energy and how it interacts with matter and how matter transforms.
What are physics and chemistry?
These kind of zeros are never significant.
What are leading zeros?