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2025 IAPS P6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mark wants to experiment how much water and fertilizer is best for plants how can he make sure his results are valid. | Test one at a time |
| How can you help validate your experiment without other people helping. | Repetition |
| How can changing to eco friendly sources change society? | Economy and daily life |
| What is a reason people don’t use eco friendly energy? | Cost of energy and infrastructure |
| Two friends conduct an experiment testing the solubility of solids in water. They send this to a third friend. Is this an example of repetition or replication? | Replication |
| What is the most significant difference between repetition and replication? | Repetition improves accuracy while replication removes bias. |
| A laser strikes a mirror with an angle of incidence equaling 50 degrees. How many degrees is the angle of reflection on the mirror? | 50 degrees |
| A light hits a reflective film with the angle between them equaling 30 degrees. How many degrees is the angle reflection? | 60 degrees |
| True or false: The outcome is the independent variable. | False. |
| True or false: The independent variable is what you are testing. | True |
| A scientist has a hypothesis that is not supported. What should he do? | Correct his hypothesis and test it again. |
| A scientist corrects his hypothesis and re-does the test. What must be true about his original hypothesis then? | His original hypothesis must have been false. |
| Why does sound travel fastest through solids than gasses? | The molecules are more compact, which enables sound to travel more quickly than in gases. |
| What does sound travel fastest through, hydrogen or aluminum? | Aluminum |
| Sarah recorded how tall her plants grew based on how much water she added. Which variable would be on the x-axis and the y-axis? | x-axis: the amount of water, y-axis: height of plant. |
| Light moves differently when in contact with different objects. What kinds of movement involve light bouncing off an object? | reflection |
| Light moves differently when in contact with different objects. What kinds of movement involve light going through an object? | Transmission |
| An investigation is being run on how exercise affects a person's probability of getting heart disease. The scientists need more resources to run the investigation. Who will help them? | Society. |
| People want methods they can practice to prevent cancer, but they don't understand where that information comes from. Who can help them? | Scientists |
| Rank which substances sound travel through from slowest to fastest : Brick, Orange Juice, Jelly | Orange Juice, Jelly, Brick |
| A radio is playing at a pool party. Jack is swimming in a pool and is 15 meters away from the radio. Caliana is sitting on a floatie and is also 15 meters away from the radio. Who hears it first? | Jack |
| If performing an experiment on which material melts ice the fastest, what would be the independent and dependent variable? | Independent: material to melt ice Dependent: speed of ice melting |
| Sally claims that if salt is placed on the ice, it will melt faster than its control. What term is used to define Sally's claim? | Hypothesis |
| Why do we use models? | To investigate things that are too small too big or too dangerous or too difficult to examine in the physical world. |
| What is the independent variable if you are measuring the distance a cart moves a block when it strikes it | How the speed effects collisions |
| What type of waves does radar use | Radio waves |
| Why can't sonar detect objects in space | because it uses sound waves and sound does not travel through space |
| What are limations of models | not like the real thing |
| As the frequency of a wave decreases, the energy on the wave (blank)? | Decreases |
| Scientists claim that waves with more energy will cause more overall harm to humans. Based on this claim, would x-rays or ultraviolet rays have a higher energy level? | X-rays |
| What is the relationship between potential energy and kinetic energy as a roller coaster goes down a hill? | GPE decreases - kinetic increases |
| Why would a skateboarder on the top of a hill have the most gravitational potential energy? | Highest position above the surface. |
| Food inside a microwave goes through an energy transformation. What is this transformation? | Microwave to Infrared |
| What wavelengths overlap with X-rays? | Ultraviolet and Gamma rays |
| When riding a bike, what energy type creates thermal energy? | Friction Energy |
| As you digest the food you eat, what are 2 kinds of energy transformations? | Chemical -> Thermal, Chemical ->Kinetic energy |
| Sarah was having a tug-of-war with her sister, what types of forces are taking place in this example? | Applied force and frictional force |
| You filter water through a vertical gravel-sand-charcoal filter. What force brings the water through the filter? | Gravitational force |
| What is the energy level of gamma ray? | highest |
| What is the energy level of radio waves? | lowest |
| What is the final energy of a speaker? | sound |
| What is necessary for a sound wave to travel? | A medium |
| When you pull back a bow what force is applied? | elastic |
| When throwing a ball what forces are in play? | gravity and applied friction |
| What kind of EM radiation lets us see bones without opening skin? | x-rays |
| What kind of EM radiation comes from the sun and can cause a sunburn? | Ultraviolet |
| What is type of heat transfer is radiation? | radiation is the transfer of heat through electromagnetic waves. |
| What is convection? | convection is the transfer of heat through a the movement of a fluid (liquid or gas) |
| What are some examples of contact forces? | friction, drag, and spring force |
| What are examples of non-contact forces? | gravity, electrical force, and magnetic force |
| What is the longest wave length | Radio Waves |
| What is the shortest wavelength? | Gamma Rays |
| When is GPE the greatest? | Highest position above the surface |
| When is KE the greatest on a roller coaster? | Lowest position on the track |
| When an object is moving at a constant speed away from origin what would that graph look like? | Upward sloped line |
| How is an object at rest graphed on a speed graph? | horizontal line |
| If an unbalanced force the is acting on an object, what must the net force be? | greater than 0 |
| What kind of force is would be observed if 5 N was pushing toward the right and 2 N was pushing toward the left. | unbalanced |
| A car is moving on a road when a red light appears at the next signal. The car stops after a short period of time. What kind of acceleration did the car experience? | Negative acceleration |
| A cyclist makes a sudden right turn during a race. What kind of force is observed? | An unbalanced force |
| A marble is rolling across the floor at a constant speed. Are the forces applied on the marble balanced or unbalanced? | Balanced |
| A pair of eyeglasses are resting on top of a table. What type of force is acting on the eyeglassest? | Gravitational force |
| Why would someone want to increase friction while driving | stop quicker, more control |
| Kyle is a race car driver, he noticed that he is slower than the rest of the drivers. What is something he could do to be more efficient? | Decrease the friction caused by air resistance. |
| In a game of tug-o-war team blue is pulling to the left and team red is pulling to the right. Team red pulls at 97 newtons and team blue pulls at 107 newtons. What is the net force in this situation? | 10 newtons to the left |
| What is the net force of an object with 50 newtons pulling to the left and 20 newtons pulling to the right? | 30N to the left |
| If a object that weighs 10kg on Earth is taken to the moon. Why would its weight be less there? | Weight is a measure of the gravitational pull on an object. |
| What would be the mass of a 10 kg object if you took it to the moon? | 10 kg |
| A marathon runner runs 16 miles in 90 minutes. What was her average speed during the race? | 10.67 miles per hour |
| A turtle walks 400 meters in 20 seconds. What is its speedl? | 20m/s |
| Two forces are acting upon an object. One force pulls 5N right. The other force pulls 5N to the left. What is the Net Force? | 0 N |
| Forces are pulling on an object in different directions, 15N up, 15N down. 6N to the left and 6N to the right. Are the forces balanced or unbalanced? | Balanced |
| If an astronaut had a mass of 80kgs on Earth, how would the mass change when he lands on Mars? | Mass would not change |
| If an object on Earth was taken to Jupiter, how would the weight change? | weight would increase |
| Two cars are driving down a slope. One car is on smooth pavement, while the other is on bumpy terrain. Which car would have more friction? | The car on bumpy terrain. |
| What is the relationship between friction and surface area? | The greater surface area would mean more friction |
| A metal box is at rest between two magnets. The magnet on the left is 2x stronger than the magnet on the right. What is the net force on the box? | Net force = 0 N |
| A fan is spinning at a constant speed. How would its motion appear on a speed graph? | an upward sloped line |
| 2 people are skydiving; one person has a mass of 50kg, and the other 70kg. When they fall, they are the same distance from the ground. What force would cause both of them to hit the ground? | Gravitational Force. |
| An object moves at a constant speed as it returns to origin. What would this look like on a speed graph? | A downward sloped line |
| Two lines were displayed on a speed graph. Line A had a steeper slope than Line B. What does this mean? | Line A is a faster moving object |
| If a block is pushed with 50N of force to the left and 30N to the right, what kind of force is being applied? | An unbalanced force |