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Hippovocab 1
Vocab From Chp. 1.!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the scientific method? | A series of steps that scientists use to answer questions and solvfe problems. |
| What is the definition of technology? | The application of knowledge,tools,and materials to solve problems and accomplish tasks;technology can also refer to the objects used to accomplish tasks. |
| What is a hypothesis? | A possible explanation or answer to a question. |
| What is an observation? | Any use of the senses to gather info. |
| What is the definition of data? | Any piece of info aquired through experimentation. |
| What is a thoery? | A unifying explanationfor a broad range of hypothesis and observations that have been supported by testing. |
| What is a law? | A summary of emperimental results and observations;a law tells how things work. |
| What is the definition of volume? | The amount of space that something occupies or the amount of space that something contains. |
| What is the definition of mass? | The amount of matter that something is made of. |
| What is temperature? | A measure of how hot something or cold something is; specifically a measure of the average kinetic energy particles. |
| What is area? | The measure of how much surface something has. |
| What is the density? | The amount of matter in a given space. |