Unit 1
When you do this to a spring, the spring doubles its stretch.
What happens when I double the force applied to a spring?
What is Newton's First Law?
This law says that each action has an opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law?
This teacher and his student argued that the world was made up of atoms.
Who was Leucippus and Democritus?
When planets orbit around a star
What is a solar system?
Not only was this scientist mentioned in a Queen song, he also experimented with inertia, and observed planets with a very early form of the telescope.
Who is Galileo?
On a velocity time graph, this happens to the object represented by the graph when the graph is sloped downward.
What is slowing down?
This force involves electric fields and metal.
What is magnetism?
These types of planets have a non-rocky surface, and typically have an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium.
What are gas giants?
This season occurs when one of Earth's hemispheres point towards the Sun.
What is summer?
Newton's three laws of motion come from this book.
What is Principia?
This force causes a golf ball rolling across a lawn to eventually slow to a stop.
What is friction?
This "gnarly" type of disturbance transfers energy from one place to another.
What are waves?
This state of matter is typically left out from the other three, and is very rare on Earth.
What is plasma?
When the Moon covers a large portion of or all of the Sun
What is a solar eclipse?