think like a scientist

Deals with a earth in space things like planets, stars, and rocks studies, nonliving things in their history

• Physical science

• Earth science

• Life science aka biology

Is the study of living things, plants, animals, and even single celled organisms

• Earth science

• Life science aka biology

• Physical science

Is all about matter and energy, the most basic building blocks of the universe. It includes physics and chemistry.

• Life science aka biology

• Earth science

• Physical science

Using all of your senses and scientific instruments to describe a thing or event

• Scientific inquiry

• Hypothesis

• Observation

The strategy used for scientific investigations

• Scientific inquiry

• Qualitative

• Conclusion

• Observation

Information or data based on countable measurements of something

• Scientific inquiry

• Conclusion

• Quantitative

• Hypothesis

Information based on the quality of some thing

• Observation

• Qualitative

• Conclusion

Like a globe or a diorama

Describes what happens under certain conditions

• Law

• Theory

An explanation of why Something Happens, based on years of testing and observation

• Law

• Theory