Methods of Science
Mathematics and Physics
Measurement
Graphing Data
Miscellaneous
100
This is the branch of science that involves the study of the physical world: energy, matter, and how they are related.
What is physics?
100
Identify the prefix that would be used to express 4,000,000,000 bytes of computer memory.
What is (giga)byte?
100
This is a comparison between an unknown quantity and a standard.
What is a measurement?
100
A variable that is manipulated during an investigation.
What is What is the independent variable?
100
Convert 17.98m to mm.
What is 17,980 mm?
200
This is a possible explanation for a problem using what you know and what you have observed.
What is a hypothesis?
200
This is the number of significant figures in 1.6400 X 10^5
What are five significant figures?
200
The length of a room is 18.4m, its width is 5.5m, and its height is 3m. What volume does the room enclose?
What is 303.6 cubic meters
200
A line drawn as close to all the data points as possible.
What is a line of best fit?
200
How many significant figures are in 0.00230300?
Six significant figures
300
These are the first three steps of the scientific method.
What are “state the problem,” “gather information,” and “form a hypothesis?”
300
Name the SI base unit for temperature, electric current, and luminous intensity.
What are kelvin, ampere, and candela?
300
The degree of exactness of a measurement is called its ___ while ____ describes how well the results of a measurement agree with the “real” value.
What are precision and accuracy?
300
When the line of best fit is a straight line
What is a linear relationship?
300
During a lab experiment, the temperature of the gas in a balloon is varied and the volume of the balloon is measured. Identify the dependent and independent variable.
Independent Variable: Temperature Dependent Variable: Volume
400
This model revolves around the idea that an atom consists of electrons embedded in a ball of positive charge.
What is the Thompson model?
400
This is a car’s average speed when it is traveling 450 km in 6.5 hours. (Km/h)
What is 69.2km/h?
400
Accuracy is checked by _____ an instrument before measuring.
What is "zeroing"?
400
This exists when one variable depends on the square of another variable.
What is a quadratic relationship?
400
Your friend conducts a survey, asking students in your school about lunches provided by the cafeteria. She sees that 96 percent of students surveyed, like pizza. She concludes that this scientifically proves that everyone likes pizza. What is wrong with her conclusion?
The survey was based on a small part of the population, and it only included the students at one school so the results can't be used to represent the entire population.
500
A ____ is an explanation of things or events based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations, while a ____ is a statement about what happens in nature and seems to be true all of the time.
What is a scientific theory, and a scientific law?
500
Convert 4,345 km/hr to m/sec.
About 1207 m/sec.
500
If the temperature drops from 48 degrees C to 24 degrees C in 12 hours, find the average temperature change per hour and predict the temperature in 2 more hours if the trend continues.
What are "two degrees C an hour and the temperature will be 20 degrees C for an additional 2 hours?"
500
This is the formula for inverse relationship.
What is Y=a/x?
500
Given the equation F=(mv^2)/R, what relationship exists between F and R?
What is an inverse relationship?
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