What Kinds of Models Do Scientists Use?

A type of model that is in your head_______________

• scale model

• mental model

• 2-dimensional model

Something that represents the real thing ________________

• model

• satellite

• 2-dimensional model

These kinds of models can save lives _________________.

• weather

• satellite

• two-dimensional model

A type of model that has length and width _________________

• 3-dimensional model

• 2-dimensional model

• mental model

A device that sends weather images back to Earth __________________.

• mental model

• weather

• satellite

A type of model made with a computer program ___________________.

• mental model

• two-dimensional model

• computer model

A type of model that has length, width, and height ___________________.

• model

• mental model

• three-dimensional model

In this type of model, a measurement on the model stands for a meaurment on the real thing _________________.

• scale model

• real-time

• 2-dimensional model

Data that scientists can use as soon as it is collected __________________

• mental model

• two-dimensional model

• real-time

A scientist that studies the weather is _________________.

• botanist

• zoologist

• meteorologist