What is Science?
Sound
Light
Waves
Forces
100
Scientific ______ are logical interpretations of observations based on prior knowledge.
What are inferences.
100
The speed of sound depends on these three characteristics of the medium it was traveling through.
What is elasticity, density, and temperature?
100
When light strikes an object it can be...
What is reflected, absorbed, or transmitted.
100
a traveling disturbance that carries energy from one place to another.
What is a wave?
100
A push or a pull exerted on an object.
What is a force?
200
Having direction and speed.
What is velocity.
200
The reason you can hear sound around corners.
What is diffraction.
200
Objects that fall into this this category scatter light.
What is translucent?
200
What is a medium?
What is solid, liquid, or gas?
200
This force pulls objects towards the Earth.
What is gravity?
300
Involves all five senses to prove a hypothesis.
What is observation.
300
Sound travels fastest through this medium.
What is solid?
300
An object that reflects all color would be this color.
What is white?
300
A wave that requires a medium to travel.
What is a mechanical wave?
300
This force on an object is the sum of all forces acting on this object.
What is net force?
400
A testable explanation for an observation related to a scientific question.
What is hypothesis.
400
This causes the particles of a wave to move faster.
What is temperature?
400
The retina cells that react to small amounts of light.
What is rods?
400
Name the four parts of a transverse wave.
What is crest, trough, wavelength, amplitude.
400
Forces that are equal and are exerted in the opposite direction that have a net forece of zero.
What are balanced forces?
500
The one factor that a scientist changes during and expiriment.
What is manipulated variable.
500
How close together the particles are in a medium.
What is density?
500
It refracts (bends) light, forming an image.
What is lens?
500
The height of the wave and the maximum distance moved from the rest position.
What is amplitude?
500
Any force that causes objects to move in a circle.
What is centripetal force?
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