Pd 1

Question 1

Science

Answer 1

The search for understanding the natural world through systematic observation and experimentation.

Question 2

Life Science

Answer 2

The study of living things

Question 3

Earth Science

Answer 3

The study of the non-living parts of Earth and outer space.

Question 4

Physical Science

Answer 4

A science that contains the two sub-branches of science: Physics and Chemistry.

Question 5

Physics

Answer 5

The study of forces, energy, and motion.

Question 6

Forces

Answer 6

A push or a pull.

Question 7

Energy

Answer 7

The ability to make something move.

Question 8

Motion

Answer 8

How things move.

Question 9

Chemistry

Answer 9

The study of matter and the changes it undergoes.

Question 10

Matter

Answer 10

Anything with mass and volume.

Question 11

Mass

Answer 11

The measure of the amount of matter in an object.

Question 12

Volume

Answer 12

The measure of how much space something takes up.

Question 13

Hypothesis

Answer 13

An specific educated guess or prediction that can be tested

Question 14

Law

Answer 14

A highly supported statement that cannot be proven, but may possibly be disproven one day, that says what happens but does not explain why. It is often in mathematical form.

Question 15

Theory

Answer 15

A very strong explanation of why known laws and facts exist. They never become laws.

Question 16

Opinion

Answer 16

Just what someone thinks or believes.

Question 17

Inductive Reasoning

Answer 17

Something that is observed personally and then applied to the world. (from specific to general)

Question 18

Deductive Reasoning

Answer 18

Something observed about the world and then applied to a specific situation. (from general to specific)

Question 19

Scientific Method

Answer 19

A systematic, organized way to answer a question.

Question 20

Valid

Answer 20

It is having a basis in logic or fact; it is testable and able to be accepted and repeated.

Question 21

Control Set-up

Answer 21

The side of the experiment under “Normal Conditions”

Question 22

Experimental Set-up

Answer 22

The side of the experiment that has the independent variable.

Question 23

Independent Variable

Answer 23

The one thing you change between the Control Set-up and the Experimental Set-up.

Question 24

Dependent Variable

Answer 24

What changes because of the independent variable that you measure in the experiment. (This is what you put in your data table

Question 25

Constants

Answer 25

What stays the same between your Control Set-up and your Experimental Set-up.

Question 26

Qualitative Data

Answer 26

Observations using your five senses. (descriptions)

Question 27

Quantitative Data

Answer 27

Observations of measurement.

Question 28

Data

Answer 28

Information you collected from your experiment.

Question 29

Data Table

Answer 29

A table in which you record your data during an experiment to keep your information

Question 30

Bar Graph

Answer 30

A graph that uses bars to compare things.

Question 31

Line Graph

Answer 31

A graph that uses lines to show change over time.

Question 32

Scatter Plots

Answer 32

A graph that uses dots to show the relationships between two different

Question 33

Positive Correlation

Answer 33

When one factor increases so does the other or when one factor decreases so does the other. (↑↑) (↓↓)

Question 34

Negative Correlation

Answer 34

When one factor increases the other decreases

↓↑

Question 35

No Correlation

Answer 35

Shows no relationship found between the factors (random)

Question 36

Circle Graph

Answer 36

A graph that uses a circle to show parts of a whole or percentages.
( Part / Whole ) X 100 = %

Question 37

Applied Technology

Answer 37

The application of scientific knowledge to everyday problems.

Question 38

X - Axis

Answer 38

What you are comparing or time

Question 39

Y - Axis

Answer 39

Dependent Variable