Vocabulary
Giving or passing along energy
What is energy transfer?
The energy to roll the ball came from:
What is a person's arm?
Gravity and slope were tested in this experiment.
What was the car experiment?
The variable that was tested in the sail cars.
What is the amount of wind?
The first step in building the solar ovens.
What is use a ruler to draw a square on the top of the cereal box?
Drawing that answers a question with labels
What is a model?
When the ball hit the wall this was transferred.
What is energy?
The energy was transferred from the rubber band to this.
What is the cube?
This size of sail helped the sail cars move farther.
What is bigger? (Larger)
Three items needed to make the solar ovens.
box, ruler, marker/pencil, scissors, tape, black paper, plastic wrap
When things come together with force
What is collision?
The faster the ball traveled, the more or less energy was transferred?
What is more?
The variable we tested in the rubber band and cube experiment.
What was how far back the rubber band was pulled?
The word that describes when the light energy changed to electrical energy in the solar car experiment.
What is transformed?
Energy to melt the cheese in our solar ovens came from this.
What is the sun?
The ability to move or make something move or change
What is energy?
The ball traveled the least distance during this speed trial.
What is slow?
The variable we tested in the car experiment.
What is slope?
The reason the solar cars didn't work in the shade.
What is, there wasn't enough sunlight/energy?
This happens when one form of energy changes to another form of energy.
Anything that you observe happening
What is phenomenon?
The ball traveled the most with this trial's speed.
What is fast?
We know more energy was transferred to the cube when the rubber band was pulled back more because:
What is, it traveled the farthest?
The amount of light for the solar cars that we changed and tested is also known as this.
What is the variable?
Two things that were important for the solar ovens to be like in order to heat up the nachos.
What is completely closed, in the sun, have the aluminum foil reflect the light onto the nachos?