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Science Vocab chap1
vocabulary note cards for science test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is physical science? | the study of matter and energy. |
| What is the scientific method? | a solution that contains all the solute it can hold at a given temperature. |
| What is technology? | the application of knowledge, tools, and material to solve problems and accomplish tasks; technology can also refer to the objects used to accomplish tasks. |
| What is a hypothesis? | is a possible explanation or answer to a question. |
| What is data? | any pieces of information acquired through experimentation. |
| What is theory? | a unifying explanation for a broad range of hypothesis and observations that have been supported by testing. |
| What is law? | a summary of many experimental results and observation of an object or system |
| What is a model? | a representation of an object or system. |
| What is a meter? | the basic unit of length in the S.I system. |
| What is volume? | the amount of space that something occupies or the amount of space something contains. |
| What is mass? | the amount of matter that something is made of. |
| What is temperature? | a measure of how hot or cold something is; specifically , a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object. |
| What is area? | the measure of how much surface an object has. |
| What is density? | the amount of matter in a given space mass per/ unit volume. |