Studying the difference between a rock and a mineral would fall under which branch of science?

How many main branches of Science are there?

Which branch of Science studies animals?

Which science includes the study of stars?

Things that you can touch are

What is science?

Most scientists are ____.

Jill is testing the effect of caffeine on the breathing rate of betta fish. She sets up two fish tanks with identical conditions. She places 10 betta fish in each tank. She adds caffeine to one tank and nothing to the other tank. She then counts the operculum plate movement per minute for the fish in each tank.

What scientific question is the above experiment attempting to answer?

John believes the water plant Elodea will produce more oxygen when placed closer to a light source. He places four Elodea plants of the same height at varying distances from a lamp: 1 meter, 2 meters, 3 meters, and 4 meters. The plants are in identical aquariums with a beaker placed over each plant. The oxygen content inside the beaker is measured after each plant sits for 8 hours.

Which question best describes John's experiment?

Does food coloring affect how big a bubble is when blown?

How does talking to a plant affect a plant’s growth height?

Which planet is the most interesting one to study?

Do flying saucers and aliens in other universes really exist?

Do larger seeds grow taller flowers?

Check all that apply!

Which of these sentence starters are used for scientific questions?

Which term describes one who is not aware of or not concerned about what is happening around him/her?

Are all questions scientific?

Which is an important process used to study the natural world?

Choose 2 inferences about this picture.

Scenario: You are shopping at Coles and then you hear glass breaking, someone yelling and you smell pickle juice. Which of these is/are inferences?

Which of these statements is an inference about this picture?

Which of the following statements is an inference about the picture

What is an objective observation for this picture?

Which statement is a subjective observation about this picture?

Can be influenced by personal experiences and background knowledge

When you use your 5 senses to gather information, you are making a/an

a way of doing something

to repeat, to copy, or to duplicate

to change or amend

7th Graders were asked to do an experiment on which type of food their three pet turtles like best. The turtles were fed at 8am and at 3pm everyday. First they fed each turtle the same type of food for a week, and measured hw much food was left over the next day. Then they fed each turtle a different type of food ofr a week and would measure how much food was left over the next day.

What question are 7th graders trying to answer?

Which of these is an observation?

Observation or Inference: The cat is scared.

How many steps are in the scientific method?

What is the first step in the scientific method?

Which answer choice has the correct order of the scientific method?

Which of these is an observation that could be used to form a testable question for a scientific investigation?

A series of steps designed to help you solve problems and answer questions

A student planted the same number of pea seeds in four pots with the same type of soil in each.  He put the pots in a sunny window and gave each one different amounts of water every 3 days.  This experiment is probably testing whether  ___.

Select the observation.

What two words should be in your hypothesis?

When is a hypothesis written?

Choose the correctly written hypothesis for "What is the effect of putting Pam Cooking Spray on the bottom of a sled?"

Science deals with the _______ world only.

Every hypothesis needs to be written in a way that it can:

Be tested using experiments to collect evidence.

Be proven wrong.

Provide yes or no answers. 

And ____

New information about the natural world is a result of ______.

After drawing a conclusion, what do scientists do?

Science studies natural phenomena.  This is anything that is testable/measurable, like forces, energy, & matter.

Do phenomena have to be phenomenal?    

Some organisms have just one cell and some are made of many cells.  Is this natural phenomenon?

The idea that some places are better, more beautiful, and more interesting than other places.  Is this natural phenomenon?

Phenomena that can be observed at one scale may NOT be ______ at another.

What is the relative size of an object?

What type of diagram is shown to the right of the arrow?

What type of diagram is shown to the right of the arrow?

When researching existing knowledge about an observation and question, scientists focus on finding out what is already known about  _________.

What TWO subjects fall under the branch: life science?

(Select ALL that Apply) Which subjects fall under the branch: physical science?

The work of scientists generally begins with