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WorksheetsChapter 1: The Nature of Science
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is science?
A subject in school
Process that uses observation and investigation to gain knowledge about events in nature
Something that scientists study
Study of the past
What is a hypothesis?
The answer to a question
The result of a science experiment
Educated guess or testable prediction
The study of motion
What is the International System of units (SI)?
Standard system of units/ measurement used worldwide
The metric system
The American system of measurements
A top-secret set of measurements used by government scientists only
What is mass?
Weight
Amount of matter in an object
The study of how heavy objects are
The study of elements
What is a Scientific law?
Rule of nature that sums up observations to describe a pattern in nature
A rule of government
A rule of science
Newton’s law of force
What is the scientific method?
A law of science
The method of doing science experiments
An organized set of investigation procedures used by scientists
The study of how science works
What are the steps of the scientific method?
Ask a question, research, hypothesis, design experiment, gather + analyze data, conclusion, share results, and possibly further research
Ask a question, guess, gather data, conclusion
Ask Donald Trump, design experiment, share results, and build a wall
Hypothesis, design experiment, gather and analyze data, conclusion, and share results
What is density?
Force that pulls objects underwater
Mass of an object
Mass per unit volume of a material
The study of aerodynamics
What is a Scientific theory?
A hypothesis
An explanation based on the Scientific Laws
Einstein’s theory of Relativity
Explanation based on experiments, most logical explanation
What is time
Interval between two occurring events
A measurement
Seconds
a clock
What is a graph?
A measurement of information
Visual display of information or data
A Drawing
an algebraic image
What does a line graph do
Shows trends or how data changes over time
Shows percentages
Shows numbers
Graphs a hypothesis
What is a circle graph used for?
Comparing info
Use to show how a fixed quantity is broken into parts
To show trends
To show a quadratic equation
What is a bar graph used for
Comparing information collected by counting horizontal
Comparing Linear equations
To show how many red pantsuits Hillary Clinton wore this year
To show percentages
What is mass?
Amount of matter in an object
Weight
A measurement of how many particles are in an object
A Gram
What is a constant
A number that is not a variable
factor that does not vary in an experiment
A letter that is not a vowel
The standard for comparison
