Vocabulary
Forms of energy
Energy Transformations
Nature of Science Review
Laws and Theories
100
Form of energy due to its motion
What is kinetic
100
If a 6th grade student eats a pancake for breakfast and then walks to school. What form of energy was the pancake?
What is chemical
100
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: turning on a flashlight
What is chemical to radiant/thermal
100

True or False: Scientists should debate scientific ideas when there is evidence to support different explanations.

True. Scientific debate helps scientists evaluate evidence, challenge ideas, and improve explanations.

100

This describes a consistent pattern or relationship observed in nature.

What is a scientific law

200
Form of energy due to its position and shape
What is potential energy
200
If you are riding a roller coaster what form of energy increases as you go up the roller coaster?
What is potential/gravitational potential energy
200
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: eating an apple and then going to the gym to work out
What is chemical to mechanical and thermal
200

True or False: Experimentation is the only way scientists can conduct scientific investigations.

What is False. Scientists can also use observations, field studies, models, and other methods to investigate questions. 

200

This explains how or why a natural phenomenon occurs and is supported by extensive evidence.

What is a scientific theory

300
Energy cannot be created or destroyed
What is law of conservation of energy
300
A student is cold while she waits outside for the bus so she decides to rub her hands together. What form of energy is her mechanical energy being converted into?
What is heat/thermal energy
300

What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: burning firewood

What is chemical to radiant and thermal

300

A student measures the temperature of water as 75°C and records that it takes 42 seconds to boil. What type of data is being collected?

What is quantitative data

300

True or False: A scientific theory can eventually become a scientific law if enough evidence supports it.

What is false

400
when one form of energy converts into another form
What is energy transformation
400
You and your brother are racing a toy car and a toy truck down a ramp at your house. Your brother picks the car because he loves to go fast. You predict that the truck will win down the ramp. Explain why your prediction would be right assuming they are going the same speed and there are no other factors or forces at work?
What is the truck has more mass and therefore more kinetic energy
400

What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: plugging in a hair dryer and turning it on

What is electrical to thermal and sound

400

A scientist conducts an experiment three times. Later, a different scientist at another school follows the same procedure to see if they can obtain similar results. What is the work of the second scientist called?

What is replication

400

Newton’s laws describe patterns in how objects move, while the theory of gravity helps explain why objects are attracted to one another. What is the key difference between a law and a theory?

What is a law describes what happens, while a theory explains how or why it happens?

500

Form of potential energy that is stored in molecular bonds

What is chemical potential energy

500
If you and a friend are going down two different slides, but the slide your friend is on is 100 ft in the air and the one you are on is 50 feet, which one of you would have more potential energy?
What is your friend
500
What type of energy transformation occurs in the following scenario: A windmill spinning
What is mechanical to electrical
500

In a graph showing how the amount of sunlight affects plant growth, which variable belongs on the x-axis, and which belongs on the y-axis?

What are the independent variable on the x-axis and the dependent variable on the y-axis?

500

A student says, “The theory of evolution will eventually become the law of evolution because scientists have collected so much evidence.” What is wrong with this statement?

What is scientific laws and theories serve different purposes, so one does not become the other?

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