Simple Machines
Scientific Method
Vocabulary
Variables
Graphing
100
A simple machine made of a wheel with a rope or chain wrapped around it; pulling down on the rope can lift an object attached to the rope.
What is a pulley?
100
The first step of the scientific method.
What is create a testable question?
100
Size
What is magnitude?
100
Anything that can be changed in an experiment to get different results.
What is a variable?
100
This belongs on the top of every graph you make.
What is a title?
200
A simple machine with one thick end and one thin edge used to secure and separate objects.
What is a wedge?
200
Only one variable can be changed at a time
What is a fair test?
200
The force the holds us down on Earth.
What is gravity?
200
Measured
What is the dependent variable?
200
What is the name of the horizontal (side to side) axis?
What is the X-AXIS?
300
An inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder
What is a screw?
300
The outcome of an experiment supported by data.
What is a conclusion?
300
When two objects try to move across each other in opposite directions.
What is frictional force?
300
Changes
What is the independent variable?
300
This axis is located on the left side of a graph. It is on the vertical axis.
What is the Y axis?
400
A bath tub is an example of which simple machine?
What is an inclined plane?
400
A reasonable prediction to what might happen in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
400
A force that attracts metal
What is magnetism?
400
Something that stays the same to keep an experiment fair.
What is the control variable?
400
The dependent variable is located on this axis.
What is the Y Axis.
500
A doorknob is an example of which simple machine.
What is an wheel and axle?
500
Second step of the scientific method.
What is conduct research?
500
When two dry objects rub against each other creating an electrical charge.
What is static electricity?
500
The number of variables that you can change in an experiment at a time.
What is one (1)?
500
This graph is used to show a comparison.
What is a bar graph?
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