The higher the temperature of water, the faster an egg will boil.
What is the independent variable? What is the dependent variable?
IV: temperature of water
DV: how fast the egg is boiling (time)
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What is Newton's first law?
Moving objects travel at a constant sped in a straight line. An object at rest tends to stay at rest until a force pushes or pulls an object.
200
This is the 3rd planet from the sun
Earth
200
What two gases make up the sun?
helium and hydrogen.
200
The time it takes to run a mile depends on the person's running speed.
What is the controlled variable?
-where the people will be running
-weather
-same stop watch
200
Name all the planets in the correct order of the solar system.
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
300
What do all planets have in common in the solar system?
They revolve around the sun.
300
How many days does it take for the Earth to orbit the sun?
365 days (1 year)
300
Results: Lemon trees receiving the most water produced the most lemons.
What is the IV and DV?
IV: amount of water
DV: How many lemons the tree produced
300
What is the difference between a comet and an asteroid? (need two differences)
Comet: farther away from the sun, made of ice, and has a tail
Asteroid: Closer to the sun, made of metal, and can attract magnets
400
What are the rocky planets? (there are 4)
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
400
Explain why the sun is the center of the solar system.
The sun uses its gravitational pull for the planets to orbit. The planets orbiting pathway is dictated by the sun's gravity.
400
What is the DV and IV? (definitions)
IV: What am I changing in the experiment?
DV: What am I measuring in the experiment?
400
What is the path the ball will take when Ms. Cho lets go of the string?
Straight, zig-zag, down, up
straight
500
What are the gas giants?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
500
True/False : The sun is larger than all the planets combined.
true
500
What is a controlled variable? (definition)
What always stays constant (same) in the experiment?
500
What is the difference between the Asteroid belt and Kuiper belt?
Asteroid belt: boundary for terrestrial planets (before gas giants) and made of asteroid and other particles
Kuiper belt: beyond the gas giants, disk shaped zone of icy objects, pluto is part of the kuiper belt objects