Machines
A machine with only one kind of movement.
What is a simple machine?
Feet in two yards.
What is six feet?
List of steps for an experiment.
What is procedure?
Statement that sums up an experiment.
What is a conclusion?
Study of plants.
What is botany?
A handle is an example of this simple machine.
What is a lever?
Feet in one mile.
What is 5,280 ft.?
Stays the same during the entire experiment.
What is a constant?
Explanation of a part of the natural world.
What is theory?
Study of the stars.
What is astronomy?
Definition of a compound machine?
What is a machine combining two or more simple machines?
Pounds in four tons.
What is 8,000 pounds?
Information gathered during an experiment.
What is data?
Repeat an experiment.
What is replicate?
Geology.
What is study of rocks?
Names of three simple machines.
What is lever, wheel and axle, inclined plane, wedge, screw and pulley?
Inches in ten feet.
What is 120 inches?
Educated guess about what might happen in the experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
An educated guess about what might happen next.
What is an inference?
Study of the ocean.
What is oceanography?
Middle point of an inclined plane.
What is a fulcrum?
Centimeters in one kilometer.
What is 100,000 centimeters?
It is measured during the experiment.
What is a dependent variable?
Look at something carefully.
What is an observation?
Entomology.
What is study of insects?