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science words week 1
words for the first week of science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| physical science | the study of matter and energy |
| scientific method | a series of steps that a scientist use to answer questions and solve problems |
| technology | the appliance of knowledge, tools, and matter to solve problems and accomplish tasks; technology can disorder to the object used to accomplish tasks |
| observation | any use of the senses to gather information |
| data | any piece of information acquired through experimentation |
| theory | a unifying explanation for a broad range of hypotheses and observations that have been supported by testing |
| law | a summary of many experimental results and observation; a law tells how things work |
| model | a representation of an object or system |
| volume | the amount of space that something occupies or the amount of space that something contains |
| mass | the amount of matter that something is made of |
| temperature | a measure of how hot (or cold) something is; specifically a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object |
| area | a measure of how much surface an object has |
| density | the amount of matter given space; mass per unit volume |