How to Science
This is the approach to seeking knowledge that involves forming and testing a hypothesis in a logical, systematic way.
What is the Scientific Method?
This is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun
What is 1 AU?
This is the speed and the direction in which an object is moving.
What is velocity?
In order to do work on an object, force must act in the ________of motion.
What is "direction?"
Prior to his death and burial at Westminster Abbey, this English scientist was knighted by Queen Anne in 1705. How MOVING!
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This Principle states:
As the speed of a fluid increases, the pressure within the fluid decreases.
What is Bernoulli’s Principle?
This machine is an object that pushes objects apart.
What is a wedge?
In an experiment, this is what you keep the same.
What is the controlled variable?
Weather describes day-to-day atmospheric conditions, while this describes the weather over a long period of time.
What is climate?
This is the rate at which velocity changes
What is acceleration?
A joule is the unit for this.
What is work? (and energy)
Because of his discoveries, we know the universe is expanding.
Who is Hubble?
This Law states:
An object in motion will stay in motion and an object at rest will stay ay rest unless an unbalanced force is applied.
What is Newton’s 1st Law of Motion?
This machine is used to lessen friction.
What is a wheel and axle?
What is observation?
Moving away from the sun, this is the order of the planets in our solar system.
What is
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This is the unit of measure for a push or a pull on an object.
What is a newton?
The rate of work is given as this.
What is power?
Eureka! Legend says he ran naked through the streets out of excitement over his newfound ability to determine the volume of an irregularly-shaped solid.
Who is Archimedes?
This Principle states:
A change in pressure at any point in a fluid is transmitted equally and unchanged in all directions throughout the fluid
What is Pascal’s Principle?
This machine is a device that pivots around a fulcrum to change the mechanical advantage.
What is a lever?
1 mL is equal to this many liters.
What is 1/1000 or .001 liter.
A natural resource that is easily and quickly replenished is known as this.
What is a renewable resource?
This force opposes the motion of objects that touch as they move past each other.
What is friction?
This force is the reason why no machine is 100% efficient.
What is friction?
His Principle explains the concept of lift.
Who is Bernoulli?
This Law states:
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion?
This machine lifts items by advancing up a slope.
What is an inclined plane?
In order for this to be considered, it must be possible to be tested and accepted or tested and rejected.
What is a hypothesis?
This is the study of planet Earth, including its composition.
What is geology?
This force acts between any two masses.
What is gravity?
These are the six types of simple machines.
What are wheel and axle, screw, wedge, inclined plane, pulley, and lever?
His name represents the unit for pressure.
Who is Pascal?
This Law states:
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed - only converted from one form of energy to another.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
This machine can be used to raise or hold objects together.
What is a screw?
This tells WHAT happens, a fact.
This tells WHY it happens, an explanation.
What is a Scientific Law and a Scientific Theory?
These are the three main categories of rocks.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
This is the unit used to describe a force distributed over an area, or pressure.
What is a pascal?
This is the ability to do work.
What is energy?
The SI unit named for him is also known as a newton-meter.
Who is James Prescott Joule?
This law states:
The rate of change in momentum is proportional to the force applied.
What is Newton's 2nd Law
This machine alters a force’s direction.
What is a pulley?
This is why science is never settled.
What is
1- It presumes science exists in a binary state - that science isn't settled until it crosses some imaginary line after which it's finally settled. On the contrary, science by its very nature is never 100% settled.
2- It presumes that poor understanding in one area of science invalidates good understanding in other areas. This is not the case.
3. Natural Science is not about absolute proofs. It never reaches 100% certainty. This is the domain of the formal sciences, mathematics and logic. Science is improving our understanding by narrowing uncertainty. Different areas of science are and likely always will be understood with varying degrees of confidence.
This law states that the oldest rocks are at the bottom.
What is The Law of Superposition?
Buoyancy acts against this force.
What is gravity?
Forces acting in this way are added together.
What is the same direction?
The SI unit for power is named for this man.
Who is Watt?
This Law states:
Matter can neither be created nor destroyed; it can only change state.
What is the Law of Conservation of Matter?
When discussing levers, this can be substituted for the term "input force."
What is effort?