Scientific Method
Matter
Atoms
Periodic Table
Newton's Laws
100
The first step in the scientific method
What is observation?
100
The four states of matter
What are solid, liquid, gas, and plasma?
100
The three basic components of an atom
What are protons, electrons and neutrons?
100
Name of columns in the periodic table
What are groups or families?
100
A person's body is thrown outward as a car rounds a curve on the highway (Which of Newton's Laws of Motion is applicable?)
What is Newton's 1st Law (Law of Inertia)?
200
A pattern or relationship that has been established based on a large amount of experimental data
What is a scientific law?
200
The difference between the particles of a solid, a liquid, and a gas (Draw your answer on the whiteboard)
What is closely packed, slightly far apart, very far apart?
200
An electron has this charge
What is negative electrical charge?
200
How to determine the number of valence electrons in an atom
What is the Group #?
200
Superman punches you in the face and in turn is thrown miles backward from the blow (Which of Newton's Laws of Motion is applicable)?
What is Newton's Third Law (see what really happens if Superman punched you at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-fL8zopddI
300
A scientist testing the affects of a chemical on apple yield sprays an orchard with the chemical. A second orchard does not receive the chemical. In the Fall, the number of apples harvested from each forest is counted. The independent (manipulated) variable in the experiment is
What is amount of chemical sprayed on the orchard?
300
Bleaching your hair is an example of this type of change
What is a chemical change?
300
An atom as a whole has this charge
What is neutral?
300
Elements in the periodic table are arranged by this
What is atomic number? The elements of the periodic table are organized by atomic number. Hydrogen and helium make up the top row of the periodic table at numbers one and two. The atomic number represents the number of protons and electrons in a neutral atom.
300
A magician pulls a tablecloth out from underneath dishes and glasses on a table without disturbing them
What is Newton's 1st Law (Law of Inertia)?
400
Name at least one constant in order for the apple tree experiment to be valid scientifically
What receive the same amount of sunlight, receive the same amount of water, have the same species of apple tree?
400
Sublimation occurs when a substance experiences this phase change
What is changes from a solid to a gas?
400
The atomic number of Cl which has 17 protons and 18 neutrons.
What is 17?
400
Nonmetals can be found here
What is right side of periodic table?
400
A mathematical way to represent Newton's 2nd Law of Motion
What is F=ma?
500
The correctly written hypothesis is A) Frozen tennis balls will not bounce as high. B) If I freeze a tennis ball, then it will not bounce as high. C) If a tennis ball is frozen, it won't bounce as high as one that is not frozen. D) If I heat up a tennis ball it will bounce high.
What is B) If I freeze a tennis ball, then it will not bounce as high.
500
Characteristics of matter that can be seen through direct observation such as density, color, odor, boiling point.
What is a physical property?
500
The mass number gives us a total of these components
What is the number of protons + the number of neutrons in the nucleus?
500
Calcium (Ca) has an atomic # of 20 and an atomic mass of 40. The number of neutrons in the nucleus would be this.
What is 20 neutrons?
500
According to Newton's 2nd Law, a larger force on an object produces this
What is a larger acceleration?
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