JM's science vocab Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Observation | the facts you learn by useing your senses and measuring |
Qualitative observation | describing something using adjectives |
Quantitative observations | describing something using numbers |
Frame of Reference | the background you use to make an inference (prior knowledge) |
Inference | a conclusion based on inferences and usually combined with past knowledge |
metric system | a system of measurement based on the decimal system |
Kilo | a prefix with a value of 1000 |
centi | a prefix with the value of 1/100 |
milli | a prefix with the value of 1/1000 |
length | the distance from one point to another |
mass | the amount of matter in an object |
volume | the amount of space matter occupies |
temperature | the average kinetic energy in matter |
weight/force | push or pull |
time | (t) |
speed | distance per unit of time |
acceleration | the change in spped per unit of time |
international system of units | the metric system |
bar graph | used when observations or measurments of variables are not a continuous quantity but are separate categories |
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