Nature of Science
A structured way to learn or gain knowledge about the natural world by observing and investigating.
What is science?
A simple push or a pull exerted on an object.
What is a force?
Defined in science as the basic ability to cause change.
What is energy?
Thermal energy that naturally flows from a higher temperature to a lower temperature.
What is heat?
A type of material in which electrons are able to move through easily.
What is a conductor?
A possible explanation for a problem using what you know and what you observe.
What is a hypothesis?
The distance an object travels per unit of time.
What is speed?
This occurs when a force is applied over a distance.
What is work?
A measure of the average value of the kinetic energy of the particles inside an object.
What is temperature?
The net movement of electric charges in a single, continuous direction.
What is an electric current?
A structured test of a hypothesis under controlled conditions.
What is an experiment?
The speed of an object combined with its direction of motion.
What is velocity?
A device that makes doing work much easier.
What is a machine?
The sum of both the kinetic and potential energy of all the particles in an object.
What is thermal energy?
The tendency for a material to fight against or oppose the flow of electrons.
What is resistance?
A statement or rule about what happens in nature that seems to be true all the time.
What is scientific law?
The force that opposes the sliding motion of two surfaces that are touching each other.
What is friction?
The specific type of energy an object has due to being in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
The transfer of thermal energy through direct collisions between particles in matter.
What is conduction?
A region surrounding a magnet where the magnetic force is actively exerted.
What is a magnetic field?
An explanation of things or events based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations.
What is a scientific theory?
The tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion.
What is inertia?
The rate at which energy is converted or work is done over a period of time.
What is power?
The transfer of thermal energy in a fluid caused by the movement of warmer and cooler fluid.
What is convection?
A temporary magnet made by wrapping a current-carrying wire around an iron core.
What is an electromagnet?