Introduction to Science Vocab 1.1-1.3

The observation, study and experiment to find the nature of things

• scientific law

• science

• technology

• precise

The application of science for practical purposes

• weight

• variable

• technology

• length

A summary of many experimental results and observation; tells how things work

• weight

• scientific notation

• scientific theory

• scientific law

a method of expressing a quantity as a number multiplied by 10 tot he appropriate power 22

• scientific law

• scientific notation

• scientific method

• scientific theory

an explanation for some phenomenon that is based on observation , experimentation, and reasoning

• scientific theory

• scientific notation

• scientific law

• scientific thinking

a prescribed decimal place that determines the amount of rounding off to be done based on the precision of the measurement

• variable

• scientific law

• significant figures

• accuracy

a series of steps followed to solve problems including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis and stating conclusions

• scientific thinking

• scientific method

• scientific law

• scientific theory

a factor that changes in an experiment in order to test a hypothesis

• length

• area

• variable

• factor

a measure of the straight-line distance between two points

• length

• circumference

• width

• area

a measure of the amount of matter in an object

• circumference

• area

• mass

• measure