Experiments!
Galileo!
Pendulums!
Vocabulary!
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An investigation to prove a theory that can be designed to see how variables affect outcomes.
What is an experiment?
100
Galileo was this type of scientist, one who studies the sky.
What is an astronomer?
100
This is the variable that DID make a difference in the number of swings.
What is length?
100
A reasoned estimation of a future event based on context, data, or experience.
What is a prediction?
200
Anything you can change in an experiment that can affect the outcome.
What is a variable?
200
He was the first to use a __________ to look into the _________ __________.
What is telescope, and solar system?
200
These are the two variables that made no difference in the number of swings,
What is mass and release position?
200
A mass (bob) hanging from a fixed point that is free to swing to and fro is called this.
What is a pendulum?
300
An experiment where you only control ONE variable.
What is a controlled experiment?
300
He made the first maps of the ________ surface and discovered satellites orbiting ___________.
What is the Moon's and Jupiter?
300
This is the relationship between the length of the pendulum and the number of swings it makes in a unit of time.
What is as the length of the pendulum decreases, the number of swings increases?
300
A motion that repeats itself is called this.
What is a cycle?
400
Any variable in an experiment that is not allowed to change.
What is a controlled variable?
400
Galileo's interest in pendulums started here.
What is a church? (the cathedral in Pisa)
400
This is the display of experimental data we used to show the relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable.
What is a two-coordinate graph?
400
This is changed in an experiment to find out how it affects the experiment outcome.
What is the independent variable?
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A basic procedure or rules used in a controlled experiment, before changing any of the variables.
What is a standard?
500
Galileo was considered a modern scientists and may have been to first to conduct this type of experiment.
What is a controlled experiment?
500
On our two-coordinate graph, the independent variable was on this axis.
What is the x-axis?
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This changes in response to other variables changing in an experiment.
What is a dependent variable?
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