The Body
What is the heart?
A ball rolls down the hill due to this force
What is gravity?
The phase of matter of water at room temperature
What is liquid?
Something that can cause things to move or stop moving (e.g. a push or a pull)
What is a force?
US government organization that tests the safety of food and the scientific validity of drugs
What is the FDA?
Number of chambers in the heart
What is 4 chambers?
Units of energy for food
What are Calories?
Everything in the universe is made up of energy and this
What is matter?
Heavier objects are described to have more of this
What is mass?
This might be an example of one: The Earth is 4.2 billion years old
The sound of the heart
What is "lub-dub"?
The energy associated with a moving object
What is kinetic energy?
These are the smallest units of matter
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"
What is Newton's 3rd law?
Fields of study that claim to be scientific but are not based on real science and fail at some step of the Scientific Method
What is pseudoscience?
Cells that transmit electrical impulses from the brain to the body
What are neurons? (or nerve cells)
SI unit of energy (not the one for food)
What is a Joule?
The process in which a liquid turns into a gas
What is vaporization (or evaporation)?
"Objects in motion tend to stay in motion, while objects at rest tend to stay at rest"
This might be an example of one: There are invisible cats and dogs flying in the sky
What is an unfalsifiable hypothesis?
A device used to listen to the heart
What is a stethoscope?
Catalysts reduce the energy required for a chemical reaction to take place (lowers the "hill" look at whiteboard). Protein catalysts in the body are called this
What is an enzyme?
Process that converts a sugar to water and carbon dioxide through burning
The equation that relates a force to an object's mass and acceleration
What is F = ma?
Form of matrix where all entries below the main diagonal are 0s
What is row echelon form?