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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 19mins
Who laid the foundations for classical mechanics, explaining the law of gravity and the laws of motion in 1867?
Galileo Galilei
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
Antoine Lavoisier
Who created one of the first modern telescopes, and successfully proved the Earth revolves around the Sun?
Ernest Rutherford
Galileo Galilei
James Clerk Maxwell
Gregor Mendel
(14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) He was a German-born scientist. He worked on theoretical physics. He developed the theory of relativity. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for theoretical physics. His famous equation is E=m.c2 (E = energy, m = mass, c = speed of light).
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Galileu Galilei
Nikola Tesla
(25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726) He was an English physicist, mathematician and astronomer. In 1687, he presented his theory of universal gravitation and three laws of motion. He built the first practical reflecting telescope in 1668. He also developed a theory of light based on the observation that a prism decomposes white light into the colors of the rainbow.
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Charles Darwin
Experiment: How does the flavor of ice cream affect the speed of melting?
The flavor of ice cream is the ___________ variable.
independent
dependent
Experiment: Does changing the wing shape to make it more narrow affect the distance a paper airplane will fly?
The wing shape is the ___________ variable.
independent
dependent
The one variable in an experiment that is purposely changed by the scientist is the________________.
dependent variable
independent variable
data
control group
A study was done to find if different tire treads affect the braking distance of a car.
A study was done to find if different tire treads affect the braking distance of a car.
A study was done to find if different tire treads affect the braking distance of a car.
The first step of the scientific method is to _____________________________.
ask a question/state a problem
do an experiment
research
draw a conclusion
Another word for prediction is: ________________
hypothesis
conclusion
experiment
data
Everything you want to remain the same or unchanged is called the ___________ variables.
independent
dependent
controlled
