Data and Formulas
Forces
Density/Floating
Scientific Method
Variables
100
This is the average of the data points 5,11, and 14.
What is 10?
100
This is the force that opposes motion.
What is friction?
100
This is the density of water.
What is 1g/mL?
100
This it the 'if...then... because" statement that describes the relationship between the independent and dependent variables.
What is a hypothesis?
100
This is the tool of measurement used to measure mass.
What is scale?
200
This is the range of the data 5cm,11 cm,14cm.
What is 9cm?
200
This is the substance used to reduce friction.
What is a lubricant?
200
This is what happens to an object that is denser than the substance in which it is placed.
What is sink?
200
This is the variable that is measured or observed and not directly manipulated by the scientist?
What is the dependent variable?
200
This it the SI unit of measurement used to measure mass.
What is kilograms?
300
The number determining the value of each line on the x or y axis is known as this.
What is the scale?
300
According to Newton's third law, for every action there is this...
What is an equal and opposite reaction?
300
This is the relative density of an object that floats in water (1 g/mL) but sinks in oil (0.9 g/mL).
What is greater than 0.9 g/mL but less than 1g/mL?
300
This is the reason constants exist in an experiment.
What is to ensure that the only variable causing changes in the dependent variable is the independent variable?
300
This is a variable that should not be changed between groups in an experiment?
What is a constant?
400
Using the formula for kinetic energy 1/2mv^2, determine the mass of a truck with a velocity of 20 m/s and kinetic energy of 1600 Joules.
What is 8kg?
400
According to Newton's First law, an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted on by this...
What is an unbalanced force?
400
This is the reason a submarine is able to sink?
What is by filling its ballast tanks with water (displacing the air inside and making the overall density of the submarine greater than water)?
400
This is a fact about the variables that is collected using your 5 senses.
What is an observation?
400
This variable is measured in Newtons.
What is force?
500
This is the volume of an object with a density of 10 g/mL and a mass of 825 grams.
What is 82.5 mL?
500
When dropping a bowling ball onto the floor, this is the point when the bowling ball has the greatest potential energy.
What is when/where you are holding it (at the top)?
500
This is the density of an object that is floating but with 62 percent of it submerged in the water?
What is 0.62 g/mL?
500
This is a part of an experiment that should be very clear and logical, using specific details to make it replicable.
What is the procedure?
500
This variable is measured in Joules?
What is energy?