Kinetic & Potential Energy
Speed & Motion
Balanced & Unbalanced Forces
Gravity
Scientific Method
Nature of Science
100
Energy of motion
What is Kinetic Energy?
100
describes location of an object
What is Position?
100
a simple push or pull
What is a force
100
a force of attraction between objects due to their mass
What is gravity?
100
Study of natural events and conditions
What is science?
200
measured in units called joules
What is Energy?
200
a location to which you compare other locations
What is Reference point?
200
combination of all forces
What is net force
200
when gravity is pulling something at something and no other forces are acting on it
What is free fall
200
Observations, measurements, and other types of data scientists collect.
What is empirical evidence?
300
Stored Energy
What is Potential Energy?
300
change in position over time
What is motion?
300
tendency for an object to resist change in motion
What is inertia?
300
traveling around another object in space
What is orbit
300
Well supported explanation about the natural world.
What is theory?
400
Kinetic plus potential energy
What is Mechanical Energy?
400
a measure of how fast something moves in a given amount of time
What is Speed?
400
a quantity that has both size and direction
What is a vector
400
8 kilometers per second
What is the speed needed to orbit
400
representation of something in the natural world.
What is model?
500
Energy can't be created or destroyed.
What is Law of conservation of energy?
500
speed in a certain direction
What is Velocity?
500
when forces of an object produce a net force of 0
What is balanced force?
500
force of gravity
What is gravitational force?
500
Describes a basic principle of nature.
What is a law?
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