Question | Answer |
What are the steps of the scientific method in order? | Problem, Hypothesis, Test, Observations, Conclusion |
What's an observation? | Anything you hear, taste, smell, touch or see during the experiment. |
What is an inference? | what you can assume from an observation. |
What is mass? | The amount of matter in an object. |
What is volume? | The amount of space an object takes up. |
What is weight? | The pull of gravity on an object. |
What is distance? | Length of space between point A and point B. |
What is density? | Amount of matter in an object. |
What is a meter stick? | A measurement tool to measure distance in metric units. |
What is a balance? | A measurement tool that measures mass. |
What is a scale? | A measurement tool that measures weight. |
What is a stopwatch? | A measurement tool that measures time. |
What is a thermometer? | A measurement tool that measures temperature. |
What is a graduated cylinder? | A measurement tool that measures volume. |
What is a meter? | A unit of measurement that measures distance (metric) |
What's a gram? | Unit of measurement (mass) |
What's a Liter? | metric unit of measurement (volume) |
What's a Kilogram? | metric unit of mass |
What's a newton? | unit of weight |
What's a joule? | unit of work |
What's a Watt? | unit of power (= to 1 Joule per second) |
What's Celcius? | A system of temperature (metric) |
What's Fahrenheit? | System of temperature (U.S customary) |
What's Kelvin? | Systeme Internacional unit of temperature |
What's direction? | a point or region itself |
What's motion? | a change in position. |
What is Frame of refrence? | what you compare an object to, to determine and objects motion. |
What is Speed? | Velocity and time |
What is constant speed? | speed that stays the same |
What is acceleration? | speeding up or changing direction |
What is deceleration? | slowing down |
What is tension? | pulling or stretching force |
What is compression? | pushing or squeezing force |
What is work? | excerting a force over a distance |
What is mechanical advantage? | the machine splits the work with you |