Scientific Method
The part of an experiment that serves as a standard for comparison.
What is a control group?
When clothes catch on fire during a lab, you should do what first
What is tell the teacher
what are balanced forces
The greater the force that's applied to it, the greater its __________ will be.
What is acceleration
A change in position
What is motion
What is a hypothesis?
The best lab equipment to be used to measure the volume of an irregular object
What is a graduated cylinder
The upward force on an object falling through the air is
What is air resistance
When placing a penny on top of a card that is laying on top of a cup, why does the penny drop into the cup when the card is pulled off cup?
What is inertia
An indicator that orients you when describing motion
What is reference point
The dependent variable goes on this on a graph
What is Y-axis
Used to show percentages
What is a circle/pie graph
The size of the gravitational force between two objects depends on what two things
What is mass and distance
"To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" describes which law
What is Newton's 3rd Law
Acceleration is rate of change of
What is velocity
The "cause" of the experiment, what we are purposefully manipulating or changing in an experiment
What is the independent variable
The dog has two legs is what kind of observation
What is quantitative
An astronaut is planning a trip to a newly-discovered planet. According to the Law of Universal Gravitation, the astronaut's weight on the new planet will be greater than his weight on Earth if:
What is the new planet has more gravity than Earth
A firefighter feels the hose pushing backwards onto him as he uses it to put out a fire. What is the most likely the cause of this?
What is the water exerts an equal and opposite force on the hose
If you ride your bicycle down a straight road for 500 m then turn around and ride back to your starting point, your distance is _____ your displacement
What is greater than?
All of the following are steps in a scientific method EXCEPT...
observing/recording data
forming a hypothesis
discarding data
What is discarding data
The dog is very cute is what type of observation
What is qualitative observation
What is increase?
What best describes how a swimmer moves through water
What is the swimmer pushes backwards on the water and the water pushes with an equal but opposite force back on the swimmer
The horses on a carousel or merry-go-round are accelerating because ____.
What is the direction of the horses’ motion is constantly changing