Chapter 1 Review

How are science and technology related?

• Technology is a branch of natural science

• Science is a branch of technology

• Advances in science may lead to advances in technology and vice versa

• Science and technology are not related.

What are the building blocks of all matter?

• Forces

• Atoms

• Magnetic Fields

• kinetic and potential energy

Why are scientific models important?

• They prove scientific theories

• they help visualize things that are very complex, very large, or very small

• they make it harder to understand things

• they never change

Which of the following is an example of a safe laboratory procedure?

• Tying back long hair and loose clothing

• eating or drinking from laboratory glassware

• touching hot objects with your bare hands

• testing an odor by directly inhaling the vapor

The type of graph used to show how a part of something relates to the whole is a

• circle graph

• line graph

• bar graph

• direct proportion

If the relationship between the manipulated variable and the responding variable is a direct proportion, what will a line graph of this relationship look like?

• A straight line

• a jagged line

• curved line

• none of the above

Process that uses observations and investigation to gain knowledge about events in nature is called

• experiment

• inferring

• predicting

• science

A possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question is called a

• prediciton

• hypothesis

• theory

• law

A standard for comparison in an experiment is called a

• fact

• variable

• constant

• control

A rule of nature that sums up related observations is a scientific

• inquiry

• hypothesis

• theory

• law