Class Norms & Ms. Calma
The number of table points required for a candy reward.
What is 20?
The definition of tentative.
What is "can change?"
This decreased after an ancient asteroid collision.
What is biodiversity?
This law explains that an object in motion always stays in motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
What is Newton's First Law?
This force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
The three class norms in Ms. Calma's class.
What is Show Respect, Be Positive, and Try Your Best?
A tentative explanation.
What is a hypothesis?
The number of years since an asteroid impact led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
What is 65 mya?
This law explains why a basketball moves more than a bowling ball when the same amount of force is applied to both.
What is Newton's Second Law?
The difference between the two marbles dropped onto the sand, and how that affected their fall.
What is mass and the time they took to reach the ground?
The consequence for a third reminder.
What is the "last to leave" and reflection desk?
What is an asteroid headed towards Earth?
This component, found in the soil layer, is also present in asteroids.
What is iridium?
It is easier to push the empty shopping cart when it begins to fill up. This law explains why.
What is Newton's Second Law?
This famous scientist formulated the universal law of gravitation.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
Ms. Calma's first name.
What is Donita?
The shape of Etiam.
What is an irregular bone-shape?
This happened to fossil records after an ancient collision.
What is a decrease in fossil numbers?
An object's acceleration depends on these two things.
What is force and mass?
What is gravitational force/pull?
The college Ms. Calma went to for her bachelor's degree.
What is Cal State Long Beach?
The observations used to back up claims.
What is evidence?
The difference between background and mass extinction.
What is background extinction, which occurs slowly due to natural changes, and mass extinction, which happens quickly because of a major disaster?
The definition of Newton's Third Law.
What is "an object exerts an equal and opposite force on the first object?" (aka an "action-reaction" force?)
The relationship between an object's mass and its gravitational force.
What is "the greater the mass, the stronger the gravitational pull?"