Machines
Vocabulary
Which one?
1st Quarter
Hodge Podge
100
A rope with a grooved wheel: window blinds, flag pole
What is a pulley?
100
A push or pull exerted on an object and the object moves.
What is work?
100
Newtons measure force or work?
What is force?
100
An observation with numbers.
What is quantitative observation?
100
The prefix that means rain.
What is nimbus?
200
A solid bar that rotates around a fulcrum: See saw, wheelbarrow
What is a lever?
200
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
200
Simple machines reduce the amount of work or force?
What is force?
200
A variable that changes because of the independent variable.
What is dependent variable?
200
Stratus clouds at or near the ground.
What is fog?
300
A flat, slanted surface: ramps
What is an inclined plane?
300
The manipulated variable.
What is the independent variable?
300
A multiple pulley or fixed pulley only changes the object's direction of movement?
What is a fixed pulley?
300
List the steps of the water cycle in order.
What is evaporation/transpiration, condensation, precipitation, runoff?
300
The three ways heat travels.
What is conduction, convection, and radiation?
400
Finish the sentence: The longer the ramp, the _____ force used.
What is less?
400
A machine consisting of two or more simple machines.
What is a complex or compound machine?
400
What we use to measure energy: Joules or Newtons?
What is joules?
400
List the layers of the atmosphere.
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere?
400
The storm that has an eye in the center. In the pacific it is called a typhoon.
What is a hurricane?
500
An inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder.
What is a screw?
500
The part of the experiment that is a constant, unchanging variable.
What is the control variable?
500
Which is a complex machine: axe head or bicycle?
What is a bicycle?
500
List the steps of the scientific method.
What is question, research, hypothesis, test, analyze, conclusion, communication?
500
Someone who studies the weather.
What is a meterologist?
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