Vocabulary
The energy an object has due to its motion.
Kinetic Energy
What is the last step in the scientific method?
Conclusion
What variable stays the same throughout your experiment?
Energy that is involved in all energy transfers?
Does a car have more energy on top of a big hill or a small hill?
Big hill
Potential Energy
What is the first step in the scientific method?
Asking a question.
What variable changes because you intentionally changed something else?
Dependent Variable
How do we get energy? Give one example.
Eating, sleeping, or drinking.
A hypothesis is usually written with what type of model?
If/then
How many steps are in the scientific method?
6
What variable are you intentionally changing?
Independent variable
Kinetic Energy is at its highest where on a rollercoaster?
The bottom of the rollercoaster.
What is a procedure?
Step by step instructions.
Thermal Energy.
Name the three types of variables.
Independent, dependent, and controlled variable.
If you were to heat up water, oil, sand, and brick for one minute on the stove and then take the temperature to see which one is more hot then what would be your dependent variable?
Potential energy is at its lowest where on a rollercoaster?
Why did food coloring disperse quicker in hot water than in cold water?
Hot water has more moving particles causing the food coloring to mix quicker.
What is the definition to Law of Conservation of Energy?
Energy can not be created or destroyed.
Which step is creating a hypothesis?
Step 3.
If you were to heat up water, oil, sand, and brick for one minute on the stove and then take the temperature to see which one is more hot then what would be your independent variable?
Name 4 different forms of energy.
Kinetic, potential, chemical, thermal, electrical, light, sound.
Why did the tennis ball never go back to its original drop point?
The energy was being transferred into thermal energy OR the energy was being wasted.