Variables & Graphing
In which axis do you plot the independent variable?
What is the x-axis?
You can see the entire face of the moon lit up at night. What phase is it in?
What is a full moon?
This occurs whenever an object is acted upon by an unbalanced force.
What is change in motion/acceleration?
Like poles __________. Opposite poles ________.
What is repel/attract?
The variable that the scientist changes?
What is the independent variable?
If athletes drink gatorade then their performance will increase because gatorade supplies energy to the body.
What is the dependent variable?
What is their performance?
What season is it when Northern hemisphere is titled away from the sun?
What is winter?
The force that acts directly against the direction of motion.
What is friction?
The space around a magnetic which magnetic forces can act on an object.
What is a magnetic field?
What force stops a ball that is thrown in the air from flying up forever?
What is gravity?
A company wants to test a new dog food that is supposed to help over weight dogs lose weight. After one month the dogs are checked to see if they lost any weight.
What is the independent variable?
What is dog food?
The moon __________________ around the earth.
What is revolves?
A car and a train are going the same speed. The car is easier to stop because of this is.
What is less mass/less inertia?
A type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by an electric current.
A magnetic force gets weaker when repelling magnets are ______ from each other.
What is further?
________ are kept the same throughout an experiment.
What is constant/controlled variables?
We see the lit surface of the moon getting smaller, but is more than half lit.
What is waning gibbous?
A bowling ball collides with a set of bowling pins (at rest) with a force of 15N. What is the force the pins exert on the bowling ball.
What is 15N?
A magnetic force gets stronger when repelling magnets are _____ to each other.
What is closer?
What would seasons be like if Earth's axis had no tilt?
What if there were no seasons?
Orchards were studied to determine if the amount of humidity affected the flowering of the plants. What are the independent and dependent variables?
What are amount of humidity (IV) and flowering of the plants (DV)?
Name all the phases of the moon in order.
What is new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent?
When pushed with the same force, which shopping cart will accelerate faster-a small one with a mass of 5kg or a large one with a mass of 3kg?
What is the large one with a mass of 3kg?
What kind of circuit has multiple paths for electricty to flow?
What is a parallel circuit?
What happens when a series circuit has a break in it?
What is the circuit cannot be completed. The path of electricity is broken?