Data & Scientific Thinking
A type of data uses numbers and measurements.
What is quantitative data?
A type of energy an object has because of its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
The person responsible for Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865 that lead to Vice President Andrew Johnson becoming the 17th President.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This major invention helped connect markets and industries across the United States.
What is the railroad?
The bloodiest battle in US History.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
A term that describes how close a measured value is to the accepted value.
What is accuracy?
The energy needed to start a chemical reaction.
What is activation energy?
The Reconstruction plan that required 10% loyalty for readmission.
What is Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?
Railroads helped grow this industry by transporting raw materials.
What is the steel industry?
The scientific process that uses light to identify elements.
What is spectroscopy?
The likelihood that a specific event will occur.
What is probability?
This happens to electrons when an atom becomes excited.
What is they move to a higher energy level?
The amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The type of business that controls most or all of an industry and limits competition.
What is a monopoly?
The scientific law that explains energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
What is The Law of Conservation of Energy?
A graph that is used to show changes over time.
What is a line graph?
What enzymes do to the rate of chemical reactions.
What is they speed up reactions by lowering activation energy?
The laws that restricted the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
What are the Black Codes?
This term describes the removal of differences to create uniform systems in industry.
What is standardization?
This invention helped fuel industrial growth by allowing food to be transported long distances.
What are refrigerator rail cars?
A kind of graph shows the relationship between two sets of data points.
What is a scatterplot?
The law that states that total momentum stays the same in a closed system.
What is The Law of Conservation of Momentum?
This 1866 Act, which was vetoed by President Andrew Johnson and later overturned, granted citizenship to all person born in the United States and outlined rights granted to all male citizens.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
These goals caused workers to form labor unions during industrialization.
What is to improve wages, working conditions, and hours?
This Northern strategy during the Civil War was used to block the Southern ports to cut the South off from its supplies.
What is the Anaconda Plan?