Science State Test Prep

What is the name for a push or pull?

• movement

• force

• Speed

• Density

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Which one needs a greater net force to move, a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of iron? 

• feathers 

• iron

• same

• depends on their friction

You push on a tree with 20 N of force. If the tree doesn't move, the tree is pushing back on you with _____of force.

• 20N 

• 40N 

• 10N 

• 70N

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What Unit do we Measure Force in? 

• Newtons

• Joules

• Force

• Don't know

Who is Charles Darwin ?

• the ship that many scientists and naturalist traveled upon when making many discoveries about different species

• a famous naturalist who described Natural Selection as the mechanism behind evolution. He traveled around Southeast Asia only making many observations.

• a famous naturalist who was the FIRST to describe Natural Selection as the mechanism behind evolution, from his observations in the Galapagos.

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What is another word for Natural Selection?

• also known as phyletic gradualism

• also known as survival of the fittest

• also known as the Law of Use and Disuse

Evolution was also called by Charles Darwin...

• The Law of Use and Disuse

• Phyletic Gradualism

• Descent with Modifications

The Origin of Species is...

• A book written and published by Charles Darwin, describing natural selection and descent with modification

• A scientific theory explaining that parts of an organism's body that is used will become more developed, parts that are not used may become smaller and disappear

• a description of how the physical world behaves

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What is a Scientific Theory?

• an inherited characteristic that increase an organisms chance of survival in its habitat

• a descriptive generalization of how the physical world behaves

• a well-substantiated explanation that incorporates facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypothesis all together

Kinetic energy is energy in _____________. 

• Change

• Looks

• Motion

• Altitude

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