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Science Matters Potpourri
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100
Prior to his death and burial at Westminster Abbey, this English scientist was knighted by Queen Anne in 1705. How MOVING!
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
100
The speed and the direction in which an object is moving .
What is velocity?
100
A device that uses electric current to turn an axle.
What is an electric motor?
100
Pascal's Principle is at work in these systems.
What are hydraulic systems?
100
An organized plan for gathering, obtaining, and organizing information.
What is Scientific Method?
100
Light travels as both a wave and as these particles.
What are photons?
200
Because of his discoveries, we know the universe is expanding.
Who was Hubble?
200
The rate at which velocity changes.
What is acceleration?
200
Electrons carry this charge.
What is negative -?
200
Forces acting in this way are added together.
What is the same direction?
200
Gravity works against this force.
What is buoyancy?
200
Objects that reflect light are illuminated. Objects that emit light are this.
What is luminous?
300
This man was known as the Wizard of Menlo Park.
Who was Thomas Edison?
300
The tendency of an object to resist change in its motion.
What is inertia?
300
This type of circuit, the kind often used in strings of Christmas lights, has only one path through which a current may travel.
What is a series circuit?
300
A joule is equal to this.
What is a Newton-meter?
300
It is important to conduct a controlled experiment in which only this variable is deliberately changed.
What is the independent variable?
300
This type of wave is well above the range of human hearing.
What is ultrasound.
400
His Principle explains the concept of lift.
Who was Bernoulli?
400
Mass X Acceleration
What is force?
400
When a current-carrying wire is placed in a magnetic field, electrical energy is converted to this type of energy.
What is mechanical/kinetic energy?
400
Work/Time= THIS.
What is power?
400
An educated guess or explanation that is either repeatable and supported, or repeatable and rejected.
What is a hypothesis?
400
When combined in equal amounts, red, green, and blue light produce this.
What is white light?
500
His name represents the unit for pressure.
Who was Pascal?
500
These are Newton's three Laws of Motion?
1. Inertia (An object in motion tends to stay in motion and an object at rest tends to stay at rest unless acted upon by an outside force.
2. F=MA (The more force, the more acceleration.)
3. Action-Reaction (Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.)
500
Computer information is represented in this type of system, which contains only two digits.
What is binary?
500
The six types of simple machines.
What are wheel and axle, screw, wedge, inclined plane, pulley, and lever.
500
Matter will change from one state to another if this type of energy is absorbed or released.
What is thermal energy?
500
What is destructive interference?
600
He developed the first periodic table.
Who was Mendeleev?
600
This is the force that acts between any two masses.
What is gravity?
600
These are often used as semiconductors.
What are metalloids?
600
This is the number of times a force exerted on a machine is multiplied by the machine.
What is mechanical advantage?
600
In a closed system or reaction, matter, like mass, is always __________.
What is conserved?
600
This is thermal energy moving from a warmer object to a cooler object.
What is heat?
700
This Serbian-born scientist championed AC power.
Who was Nikola Tesla?
700
This is the ratio of the distance an object moves to the amount of time the object moves.
What is speed?
700
This is the process of transferring charges between objects that touch.
What is conduction?
700
This is the ability to do work.
What is energy?
700
This is the formula for density.
What is mass divided by volume?
700
When combined in equal amounts, red, green, and blue light will produce this.
What is white light?
800
The unit for measuring electric potential is named for this Italian.
Who was Alessandro Volta?
800
A push or a pull on an object is measured in this unit.
What is a newton?
800
If you are walking around in socks and get "zapped" by a doorknob, you've experienced this.
What is static discharge?
800
Its rate is power and its SI unit is the joule.
What is work?
800
200 grams is equal to this many kilograms?
What is .2 kg?
800
The wavelength of a light wave determines this (in our perception).
What is color?
900
This dude hung frog legs on his fence as part of his "bioelectricity" experiments?
Who was Luigi Galvani?
900
This is the force that opposes the motion of objects that touch as they move past each other.
What is friction?
900
In this force, opposite poles attract and like poles repel.
What is magnetic force?
900
When discussing the work done a lever, the LOAD may also be identified by this term.
What is the effort?
900
In an experiment, this is what you change.
What is the independent or manipulated variable?
900
The frequency of a sound wave determines this (in our perception).
What is pitch?