Inquiry
The step in the process where materials, variables and procedures are determined.
What is plan and prepare?
When scientist tell others what they found.
What is share the data?
The change in position of an object.
What is Motion?
The weight at the end of a pendulum.
What is a Bob?
The tool that measures force in an experiment.
What is a Spring Scale?
When I look for patterns in my results.
What is Analyze data
A push or pull that acts on an object.
What is Force?
The measure of how fast an object is moving in one direction.
What is Velocity?
The location at which the pendulum is dropped?
What is Release Point?
This relies on the outcome of the experiment because I changed the independent variable.
What is the Dependent Variable?
When I have a problem and I want to know the answer.
What is question?
A force acting between two objects that resists motion.
What is Friction?
The unit used to measure force?
What is a Newton?
The variable that YOU change.
What is the Independent Variable?
This happens when object collide and energy goes from one item to the other.
What is Transfer of Energy?
My educated guess.
What is hypothesis?
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
When something is pushed down.
What is Compression?
One full swing from release point and back.
What is a cycle?
The natural force pulling objects toward the center of the earth.
What is Gravity?
What I do as the experiment is taking place.
What is collect data?
A scientific test in which one variable is changed.
What is a Controlled Experiment?
Energy from a moving object.
What is Kinetic Energy?
When an object is sitting still, it has this energy.
What is Potential Energy?
Two or more objects working together.
What is a system?