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A student is asked to make a quantitative observation of the ant shown . Which of the following students do you think is correct?
Student A: “The ant is black.”
Student B: “The ant has 6 legs and 2 antennae.”
Student C: “The ant is about 3 cm long.”
Student D: “The ant has a long, thin body.”
The ruler above does not show the units. Assuming the student is using an appropriate scientific tool, what unit should the length be measured in?
What tool is used to measure Volume?
Find the volume of the box below. You may use a calculator, make sure to round correctly.
A student is investigating how the side of a penny will affect the number of drops the penny will hold. What is the independent variable in this experiment Data?

What is the purpose of a comparative investigation?
A block of aluminum with a mass of 20g is used to make a bolt. If the bolt has half the mass of the original block what is the density of the bolt?
Which of the following statements would be the best qualitative observation the sketcher could include?

What was the scientific question this experiment trying to answer?
Which one of the following best depicts the shape and structure of a water molecule?

The polarity of water is caused by an uneven sharing of ___________.
What is Cohesion?
What type of bond exists between molecules of water (shown with the dotted lines in the diagram below)?

What is Adhesion?
The polarity of a water molecule can be described as which of the following?
What part of the water molecule has a positive charge?

What properties of water allow the water to dome up on top of the penny?

Which property of water allows it to break down other substances so well?
What is the most probable explanation for this trend in the data?

Does the tree ring reconstruction accurately reflects the amount of flow measured from 1905-2005?

Based on the outflow from lake Powell does the lower basin of the Colorado river receive their full Compact Stata allocation?

What is Matter?
What is the smallest piece of a Compound (2 or more elements chemically combined) that still has the properties of that compound?
A substance that cannot be decomposed (broken down) into other substances by chemical methods.

A mixture that has the same characteristics throughout, and can be separated by physical properties. Example Soda

The temperature that a liquid changes to a gas.
Why is a gold bar a pure substance?
Which best identifies the image?

What is the name of the element? (Use the periodic table to answer this question)


Which particle has a negative charge?
Which particle has no charge and is neutral?
Which particles are found in the nucleus of an atom?
What is the Periodic Table?
What is the atomic number of Phosphorus?

What is the atomic mass of an element?
What is the atomic mass of Phosphorus?

What are chemical properties?
Why are valence electrons important?
How do covalent bonds form?

What is the law of conservation of matter?
Which of the following is the correct Lewis dot structure for Carbon? Remember Lewis dot structures show valence electrons.

What was the Independent variable in this investigation?
What was a constant in this investigation?