Types of Models

What is a physical model?

• A structure that allows for physical activity
• A structure scientists develop in their minds.
• A model based on the scientific method.
• A model scientists build to represent something else.

What type of model did we use with this activity?

• Conceptual Model
• Physical Model

What type of model does this picture represent?

• Conceptual Model
• Physical Model

Physical models are of things you can see.

• True
• False

What is a conceptual model?

• A structure that scientists develop in their minds.
• A model that scientists build to represent something else.
• A model based on the scientific method.
• A structure that allows for variables to be tested.

Which of the following is not an example of a physical model?

• stuffed animal
• tools
• woolly mammoth
• moon

What type of model represents this picture of an atom?

• Conceptual Model
• Physical Model

These crayons represent what type of model?

• Conceptual Model
• Physical Model

Conceptual models are of things you can see.

• True
• False

Which of the following is not an example of a conceptual model?

• Atom
• DNA
• Layers of Earth
• House