Areas of Chemistry Vocab. Ch. 1

the pursuit of chemical knowledge for

its own sake

• chemistry

• organic chemistry

• pure chemistry

• analytical chemistry

describes many observations but

does not explain them

• hypothesis

• scientific law

• experiment

• scientific method

a well-tested explanation for a broad

set of observations

• theory

• observation

• hypothesis

• scientific method

the means by which a society

provides its members with those

things needed and desired

• biochemistry

• chemistry

• experiment

• technology

a proposed explanation for what is

observed

• observation

• hypothesis

• scientific method

• experiment

the science concerned with the

composition of matter and the

changes that matter undergoes

• chemistry

• organic chemistry

• pure chemistry

• analytical chemistry

field of chemistry that is concerned

with the composition of matter

• chemistry

• organic chemistry

• pure chemistry

• analytical chemistry

variable that one changes on purpose during an

experiment

• hypothesis

• technology

• microscopic

• manipulated or independent variable

describe an object that can be seen

only under magnification

• scorched

• microscopic

• macroscopic

• radioactive

a method of testing a hypothesis

• experiment

• hypothetical examination

• burning a big one

• piling on