What is the time-rate at which a body changes its position; defined
as displacement divided by the time of travel?
Velocity
100
Electron
What is a stable elementary particle that is negatively charged and
orbits the nucleus of an atom
100
Heat
What is a form of energy resulting from the temperature difference
between a system and its surroundings
100
Compound
What is a substance made up of a combination of two or more
elements held together by chemical bonds that cannot be
separated by physical means
100
Dependent Variable
What is actor being measured or observed in an experiment
200
Air resistance
What is the force of air on moving objects?
200
Evaporation
What is the process in which a liquid is converted to its vapor
phase by heating the liquid
200
Magnetic
What is having the property of attracting iron and certain other
materials by virtue of a surrounding field of force
200
Experiment
What is a procedure that is carried out and repeated under
controlled conditions in order to discover, demonstrate, or
test a hypothesis; includes all components of the scientific
method
300
Frequency
What is the number of cycles or waves per unit time?
300
Element
What is a substance that cannot be reduced to a simpler substance
by chemical means
300
Potential Energy
What is energy stored in an object due to the object’s configuration
and position
300
Vibration
What is a repetitive movement around an equilibrium point
300
Scientific method
What is a plan of inquiry that uses science process skills as a tool to
gather, organize, analyze, and communicate information
400
Crest
What is the peak or highest point on a wave?
400
Neutron
What is a subatomic particle having zero charge, found in the
nucleus of an atom
400
Radiation
What is emission of energy in the form of rays or waves
400
Light
What is electromagnetic radiation that lies within the visible range
400
Variable
What is the event, condition, or factor that can be changed or
controlled in order to study or test a hypothesis in a
scientific experiment
500
Inertia
What is What is the property of an object, due to its mass, that causes it to
resist any change in its motion unless overcome by a force?
500
Atom
What is the smallest unit of a chemical element that can still retain
the properties of that element
500
Conservation of energy
What is a fundamental principle stating energy cannot be created
nor destroyed but only changed from one form to another
500
Prism
What is a piece of glass with polished plane surfaces that disperses a beam of white light into its component colors
500
Investigation
What is a procedure that is carried out in order to observe a
response caused by a stimulus; not a complete experiment