| A | B |
| Observing | using your senses to study or examine something |
| Comparing and contrasting | observing how things or events are alike or different |
| Classifying data | putting data together in groups based on how they are alike |
| Data | collected information |
| Modeling | a way to show what a very small or a very large object looks like |
| Communicating | Sharing information with other people |
| Analyzing data | organizing information and putting it in order like in a table or graph |
| Making predictions | Saying what you think will happen before it actually happens |
| Measuring | comparing an unknown value with a known value using standard units |
| Meniscus | curve at the surface of a liquid in a thin tube |
| meter | basic metric unit of length |
| mass | the amount of matter in something |
| gram | basic metric unit of mass |