Vocabulary
A representation of an object or a process that allows scientists to study something in greater detail.
What is a model?
What are bar graphs, circle graphs, and line graphs?
A crash-test dummy a mathematical equation, and a road map are all models that represent real things.
What is a model?
1 reason simulations are used.
What is to study systems that are too large or complex?
The point of playing with hot wheels in class or as titled "Modeling the Motion of a Car".
What is to find a relationship between time and distance?
A model to copy the function, behavior, or process of the thing it represents.
What is a simulation?
This is used to display and compare data in a number of separate categories with varying lengths or heights.
What is a bar graph?
This model can be touched.
What is a physical model?
List a reason simulations are used to imitate processes.
What is the process, such as an earthquake, are too difficult to study directly?
The increment in which we tested for.
What is 5cm increments? OR What is 5cm, 10cm, 15cm, 20cm, 25cm, 30cm?
Graphs represent this.
What is data?
This is used to show continuous change over time.
What is a line graph?
This model can't be touched.
What is a conceptual model?
How are diagrams different than simulations?
What is a diagram is a physical model whereas a simulation is the act of viewing the model, whether physical or conceptual?
The major flaw in our plan.
What is the force of the push?
Data such as times, amounts, and frequencies, or the number of times something happens are recorded in these.
What is a data tables?
This is used to show how each group of data relates to all of the data. We have not used this in class.
What is a circle graph?
List 3 benefits of models.
What is representation for things too small to see, too large to see, experiment without affecting or harming the subject of study?
The reason we watched a simulation of how deltas formed.
What is limitations since we can't have class in the science lab?
We recorded our data in this and plotted it on this.
What is a data table and a line graph?
Give one example of something we organized in a data table.
What is time and distance in our Modeling Distance with a Toy Car lab? Also acceptable, "What is when we played with hot wheels?"
We used this graph to plot the change in seconds for our distance experiment.
What is a line graph?
List 3 limitations of models.
What are different size of real thing, different scale than the real thing, different material than the real thing?
Name an example of a physical model.
What is (Mrs. Myers has final say on acceptable answer)?
Yes, yes I do.
We found the average time per 5cm distance. This is the scientific term for average.
What is mean?