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| Organized way to use evidence to learn about the natural world |
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| Using your senses to gather information is an orderly way |
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| Information gathered from observation |
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| A logical understanding based on prior knowledge |
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| An educated guess (explanation) based on scientific information |
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| An experiment in which one variable (condition) is changed to see if a hypothesis is true |
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| When a hypothesis is proved many times it becomes a theory. (A well tested explanation that has been proved correct by other scientists) |
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| The study of living things |
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| Part of the earth that has all the ecosystems |
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| Community and its non-living surroundings |
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| Populations that live together in a specific area |
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| One type of organism that live in a certain area (Duxbury) |
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| An individual living thing |
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| Group of one or more cells that perform a function |
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| Group of tissue that performs a job (Heart, Lungs) |
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| Group of organs (Circulatory, Respiratory) |
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| Group of atoms (Water-H20) two or more atoms |
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| The beasic unit of matter. The pieces(particles) are made up of portons, neutrons, and electrons |
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| A particle inside an atom with no charge |
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| A particle inside an atom with a negative charge |
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| A particle inside an atom with a positive charge |
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| A pure substance made of one type of atom (Hydrogen) |
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| An atom with different number of neutrons |
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| A decimal system used by scientists to collect data and performing experiments. Multiples of ten (10) are used. |
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| Devices used to magnify (enlarge) images |
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