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A safe way to smell the fumes of an unknown substance is to ________. Vocabulary-1 for 100 Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is lightly wave the fumes toward your nose?

The _________ of an object was 25 grams. Vocabulary-1 for 200 Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is the mass?

Students working with an unknown chemical would use ________ to help protect their eyes. Vocabulary-1 for 300 Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What are goggles?

Vocabulary-1 for 400 A student is planning to investigate different types of rocks. This would be used to measure mass. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is a balance scale?

Vocabulary-1 for 500 In a model of our solar system, a tennis ball is used to represent Earth. A marble would be a good representation of Mercury in this model because compared to Earth, Mercury is ________. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. Mercury is smaller.

Vocabulary-2 for 100 “I predict the plant with the topsoil will grow better than the other plants” is an example of a _________. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is a hypothesis?

Vocabulary-2 for 200 Data from an investigation included an object that was 7 meters. This is what was measured. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is the length?

Vocabulary-2 for 300 A student is investigating plant growth. During the investigation, the amounts of light, heat, and water remain the same while the type of soil changes. The variable in this investigation is the _______. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is the soil?

Vocabulary-2 for 400 Some students want to see who can ride their skateboard down a ramp the fastest. Which tool would provide the most useful data? Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is a stopwatch?

Vocabulary-2 for 500 Waiting for teacher instructions, wearing goggles, keeping a clean work area, and disposing of chemicals properly are examples of these. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What are science safety rules?

Vocabulary-3 for 100 You should have several trials during an investigation because for this reason. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is to increase the accuracy or reliability of the conclusion?

Vocabulary-3 for 200 Graphs, charts, and tables are used to for this. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is to display data/ results?

Vocabulary-3 for 300 The senses you would use to study a leaf would be _______. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is sight, touch and smell?

Vocabulary-3 for 400 If you get a chemical on your sleeve, you should _______. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is tell the teacher?

Vocabulary-3 for 500 After the data and observations for an experiment have been made, the next step is the _________. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is the conclusion?

Vocabulary-4 for 100 A (paper clip OR a plastic cup) is magnetic. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is a property of a paper clip?

Vocabulary-4 for 200 The first step in the scientific method is to __________. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is ask a question?

Vocabulary-4 for 300 You should change _______ (how many) variables in an investigation. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is ONE?

Vocabulary-4 for 400 ________ is the tool used to measure mass. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is a balance?

Vocabulary-4 for 500 The unit used to measure mass is the _________. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is the milligram, gram and kilogram.

Vocabulary-5 for 100 The tool used to find the temperature at which water boils is the __________. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is a thermometer?

Vocabulary-5 for 200 These units can be used to measure the length of an object. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What are millimeter, meter, or kilometer?

Vocabulary-5 for 300 These units can be used to measure the volume of an object. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What are milliliter and liter?

Vocabulary-5 for 400 This is measured with a graduated cylinder. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is the volume?

Vocabulary-5 for 500 The tools can be used to find the length of an object. Push the Space Bar to check your answer. What is the ruler or meter stick?