science vocab
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- physical science
- study of matter nad energy
- hypothesis
- reasonable and educated possible answer based on what you know and what you observed
- si
- international system of units
- life science
- study of living systems and the ways in which they interact
- mass
- amount of matter in an object
- model
- any representation of an object or an event used as a tool for understanding the natural world
- earth science
- study of earth systems and the systems in space
- meter
- si unit of length
- constants
- variable that are not changed n an experiment
- measurements
- way to describe the world with numbers
- kilogram
- si unit for mass
- scientific law
- rule that describes a pattern in nature
- system
- collection of structure, cycles, and processes that relate to and interact with each other
- controlled experiment
- involves changing one factor and observing its effects on another while keeping all other factors constant
- line graph
- shows relationship between two variables
- infer
- draw conclusion based on what you observed
- graph
- colect organize and summarize data
- science
- way of learning more about the natural world
- estimation
- rough measurement of an object
- kelvin
- si unit for temperature
- technology
- practical use of science
- critical thinking
- combining what you already know with the facts that you are given to decide if you should agree with something
- precision
- description of how close measurements are to eachother
- rate
- amount of change of one measurement in a given amount of time
- scientific theory
- explain a pattern observed repeatedly in the natural world
- table
- displays information in rows and columns
- accuracy
- compare a measurements to the real,actual,or accepted value
- variables
- factoes that can be changed in an experiment