Intro to Physical Science

To use one or more of your senses to gather information

• Observing
• Predicting
• Inferring
• Estimating

When you explain your observations based on reasoning from what you already know...

• Guessing
• Inferring
• Predicting
• Scientific Inquiry

A type of observation based on numbers when making measurements like temperature, height, distance, weight, volume, or density and in science it may be called evidence or data.

• Qualitative
• Quantitative

When you make a forecast of what will happen in the future in science you are...

• Inferring
• Predicting
• Observing
• Collecting Data

The study of matter, energy, and the changes they undergo is called...

• Life Science
• Earth Science
• Physical Science

The study of the properties of matter and how matter changes...

• Physics
• Chemistry

The study of matter and energy and how they interact...

• Physics
• Chemistry

This refers to the different ways scientists study the natural world with a process that include posing a question, developing a hypothesis, designing an experiment, collecting and interpreting data, drawing conclusions, and communicating those ideas and results...

• Scientific Law
• Scientific Inquiry
• Scientific Theory

Factors that can change in an experiment and in a well-designed experiment only one variable will be purposely changed...

• Data Points
• Variables
• Hypotheses

A type of variable that is purposely changed and is also called the independent variable

• Responding Variable
• Manipulated Variable