Scientific Skills
Energy Types
Energy Transfer
Force/Motion & Speed
Non-Contact Forces & Sound
100

Question: What is the term for an educated guess or prediction based on observations of what you think will happen in an experiment?

Answer: What is a hypothesis?

100

Define energy

Energy is the ability to do work.

100

Define energy transfer.  Use the definition that would apply when you turn on a light bulb. 

An energy transfer is the movement of energy from one place to another place.

100

Question: On a distance/time graph, a straight, diagonal line shows an object moving at a constant speed. 

What does a flat, horizontal line on the same graph indicate about the object’s motion?

Answer: What is the object is at rest (not moving)?

100

Question: What do we call the area around a magnet where magnetic forces can be felt?

Answer: What is a magnetic field?

200

Question: Which scientific skill involves using your senses to gather information about the natural world and is described using numbers or amounts?

Answer: What is a quantitative observation?

200

As Felix rides his bicycle down the hill, what is happening? 

(a) kinetic energy changing to potential energy

(b) electrical energy changing to kinetic energy

(c) potential energy changing to kinetic energy  

(d) kinetic energy changing to electrical energy?

(c) potential energy is changing to kinetic energy

200

When you rub your hands together, what type of energy do you start with, and what type of energy do you finish with? 

What is mechanical (kinetic) energy will change into thermal (heat) energy

200

Two Parts:

What is speed? 

What is the equation for calculating speed?

Speed is the measurement of how fast an object's position changed in a given amount of time.  

The equation for calculating speed is Speed = Distance/Time

200

Question: What type of charge is carried by electrons?

Answer: What is a negative charge?

300

Question: When graphing experimental results, which variable is placed on the x-axis?

Answer: What is the independent variable?

300

Define potential energy.

Potential energy is stored energy.

300

Tell me what types of energy were transferred when a student used the Van de Graff generator? Describe the energy transfer that took place (at least 2). 

The electrical energy moves from the socket to the generator (is spinning = kinetic/mechanical) and produced static electricity, as well as light energy (electric spark)

300

Question:  Two people are trying to move a refrigerator.  One person is pushing to the right with a force of 25 Newtons and the other is pulling on the right side with a force of 15 Newtons.

What is the overall net force and direction of the refrigerator movement?

Answer: What is 40 Newtons and to the right?

300

Question: What happens when a magnet is cut in half?

Answer: What is each half becomes a magnet with its own north and south poles?

400

Question: In the hypothesis, "If plants are given more sunlight, then they will grow taller," what is the dependent variable?

Answer: What is the height of the plants?

400

Define kinetic energy.

Kinetic energy is the energy that an object has due to its motion.

400

What are the energy transformations that happen when you use an electric lamp? (hint, there should at least be three)

Electric energy will transform into radiant (light) energy and that will also release thermal (heat) energy.

400

Question: According to Newton's 1st Law of Motion, what property of an object resists changes to its state of motion?

Answer: What is inertia?

400

Question: Through which medium does sound travel the fastest: solid, liquid, or gas?

Answer: What is a solid (Because the particles are closer together, allowing the sound waves to travel faster from 1 particle to the next)?

500

After observing a plant growing faster in sunlight than in shade, write a scientific claim about how light affects plant growth.

Answer: What is "Plants grow faster with more sunlight."  or "More sunlight will help a plant grow faster or better."  (answers may vary)

500

Complete this quote from Albert Einstein

"Energy cannot be created or _________ . It can only be  ________ from one form to another."

Energy cannot be created or destroyed.  It can only be changed from one form to another.

500

During a collision of two cars hitting each other, name at least 2 forms of energy that are present and transform into each other. 

what is sound energy

kinetic/mechanical energy 

thermal/heat energy 


500

Question: If a car slows down FROM 25 m/s TO 15 m/s in 4 total seconds.  What is his acceleration?  (hint: use the acceleration formula)

Answer: What is -2.5 m/s/s (or m/s2)

500

Question: What happens when two objects with the same type of electric charge are placed near each other in an electric field?

Answer: What is they repel each other?