Particle Movement
Form of Matter with the slowest particle movement.
What is Solid?
A system where matter and energy can freely move in and out.
What is an open system?
Name the variable that is changed in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
What is cold?
Rain, sleet, snow and hail are all forms of this scientific term.
What is precipitation?
Form of energy with the fastest particle movement.
What is gas?
A system where only energy can move in and out.
What is a closed system?
Name the variable that data is collected on in an experiment.
The temperature of the air close to the ground.
What is warm/hot?
Water moves from the oceans to the clouds through this process.
What is evaporation?
The state of matter where particles vibrate in place.
What are solids?
A system where nothing can move in or out.
What is an isolated system?
Name the variable that stays the same in an experiment.
What is the controlled/constant variable?
The amount of water vapor in the air is also known as this.
What is humidity?
Humidity that rose, condensed and then falls to the ground as ice is also known as this.
What is hail?
The process where a liquid turns to a gas.
What is evaporation?
The reason why a plastic cup transmits more energy than a metal cup is...
What is the absorption of energy?
Two groups of students were tested to compare their speed working math problems. Each group was given the same problems. One group used calculators and the other group computed without calculators. Name the independent variable.
What is calculator versus no calculator?
The measurement of an object's mass per volume is also known as this.
What is density?
This is scientific term for the process that makes clouds.
What is condensation?
The process where a gas turns into a liquid.
What is condensation?
What is kinetic energy and gases?
Students of different ages were given the same puzzle to assemble. The puzzle assembly time was measured. Name the dependent variable.
What is the time for completion?
A pencil is broken in half its density...
What is stays the same?
The state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place is known as this scientific term.
What is weather?