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Science Mid-Term

Total questions: 68

Worksheet time: 2hrs 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is comparing what you already know with the information you are given in order to decide whether you agree with it?

a)

critical thinking

b)

hypothesis

c)

inference

d)

science

2.

What are possible explanations for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations?

a)

hypothesis

b)

science

c)

scientific law

d)

technology

3.

What is a logical explanation of an observation that is drawn from prior knowledge or experience?

a)

inference

b)

scientific law

c)

observation

d)

hypothesis

4.

What is using one or more of your senses to gather information and taking note of what occurs, prediction statement of what will happen next in a sequence of events? 

a)

observation

b)

science

c)

scientific law

d)

technology

5.

What is the investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new information that results from those investigations?

a)

science

b)

scientific law

c)

Newton's first law of motion

d)

inference

6.

What is rule that describes a repeatable pattern in nature scientific theory explanation of observations or events that is based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations?

a)

scientific law

b)

observation

c)

inference

d)

hypothesis

7.

What is practical use of scientific knowledge, especially for industrial or commercial?

a)

technology

b)

scientific law

c)

description

d)

percent error

8.

What is spoken or written summary of observations explanation interpretation of observations?

a)

description

b)

percent error

c)

scientific notation

d)

constant

9.

What is internationally accepted system of measurement?

a)

International System of Units (SI)

b)

metric

c)

scientific notation

d)

constant

10.

What is the expression of error as a percentage of the accepted value?

a)

percent error

b)

scientific notation

c)

constant

d)

gravity

11.

What is method of writing or displaying very small or very large numbers?

a)

scientific notation

b)

percent proportion

c)

constant

d)

control group

12.

What is a factor in an experiment that stays the same?

a)

constant

b)

control group

c)

dependent variable

d)

experiential group

13.

What contains the same factors as the experimental group, but the independent variable is not changed?

a)

control group

b)

experimental group

c)

dependent variable

d)

qualitative data

14.

What is the factor you observe or measure during an experiment?

a)

dependent variable

b)

experimental group

c)

independent variable

d)

quantitative data

15.

What is used to study how a change in the independent variable changes the dependent variable?

a)

experimental group

b)

independent variable

c)

dimension

d)

displacement

16.

What is the factor that you want to test; is changed by the investigator to observe how it affects a dependent variable?

a)

independent variable

b)

qualitative data

c)

quantitative data

d)

motion

17.

What are words used to describe what is observed?

a)

qualitative data

b)

quantitative data

c)

Dimension

d)

displacement

18.

What are numbers used to describe what is observed variable any factor that can have more than one value?

a)

quantitative data

b)

qualitative data

c)

dimension

d)

relative

19.

What is distance or length measured in one direction?

a)

dimension

b)

displacement

c)

motion

d)

reference point

20.

What is difference between initial position and final position of an object?

a)

displacement

b)

motion

c)

position

d)

relative

21.

What is the process of changing position?

a)

motion

b)

reference point

c)

specify

d)

relative

22.

What is an object's distance and direction from a reference point?

a)

position

b)

reference point

c)

relative

d)

specify

23.

What is starting point that you choose to describe the location, or position of an object?

a)

reference point

b)

displacement

c)

relative

d)

specify

24.

What is compared to?

a)

relative

b)

specify

c)

average speed

d)

velocity

25.

What is to indicate or identify?

a)

specify

b)

relative

c)

average speed

d)

reference point

26.

What is distance divided by time?

a)

average speed

b)

constant speed

c)

speed

d)

velocity

27.

What is rate of change of position in which the same distance is traveled each second?

a)

constant speed

b)

speed

c)

velocity

d)

acceleration

28.

What is speed at a specific instant in time?

a)

Instantaneous speed

b)

speed

c)

velocity

d)

acceleration

29.

What is distance an object travels per unit of time?

a)

speed

b)

velocity

c)

acceleration

d)

vertical

30.

What is speed and direction of a moving object?

a)

velocity

b)

acceleration

c)

contact force

d)

friction

31.

What is measure of the change in velocity during a period of time?

a)

acceleration

b)

horizontal

c)

vertical

d)

gravity

32.

What is the x-axis on a graph?

a)

horizontal

b)

vertical

c)

contact force

d)

mass

33.

What is y-axis on a graph?

a)

vertical

b)

horizontal

c)

mass

d)

gravity

34.

a push or pull on an object by another object that is touching it

a)

contact force

b)

non contact force

c)

friction

d)

static

35.

a push or pull on an object 

a)

force

b)

friction

c)

gravity

d)

mass

36.

force that resists the motion of two surfaces that are touching 

a)

friction

b)

gravity

c)

mass

d)

weight

37.

Attractive force that exists between all objects that have mass 

a)

gravity

b)

mass

c)

non contact force

d)

weight

38.

Amount of matter in an object 

a)

mass

b)

non contact force

c)

static

d)

weight

39.

a force one object can apply to another without touching it

a)

non contact force

b)

static

c)

contact forces

d)

balanced forces

40.

at rest or having no motion 

a)

static

b)

weight

c)

contact force

d)

balanced forces

41.

gravitational force exerted on an object

a)

weight

b)

mass

c)

velocity

d)

speed

42.

combined forces form a net force of zero

a)

balanced forces

b)

unbalanced forces

c)

inertia

d)

net force

43.

tendency of an object to resist a change in motion

a)

inertia

b)

friction

c)

reference direction

d)

unbalanced force

44.

combination of all the forces acting on an object 

a)

net force

b)

Newton's first law of motion

c)

reference direction

d)

unbalanced forces

45.

The motion of an object does not change if the net force on an object is zero. 

a)

Newton's first law of motion

b)

Newton's second law of motion

c)

Newton's third law of motion

d)

law of conservation

46.

given direction from a starting point to describe an object's position

a)

reference direction

b)

unbalanced forces

c)

circular motion

d)

gravity

47.

combined forces that form a net force is not zero

a)

unbalanced forces

b)

balanced forces

c)

motion

d)

reference point

48.

a force in circular motion that acts perpendicular to the direction of motion toward the center of the circle

a)

Centripetal Force

b)

Circular motion

c)

Newton's second law of motion

d)

force pair

49.

any motion in which an object is moving along a curved path

a)

circular motion

b)

gravity

c)

velocity

d)

mass

50.

acceleration is equal to the net force exerted on the object divided by the object's mass 

a)

Newton's second law of motion

b)

Newton's first law of motion

c)

Newton's third law of motion

d)

the big bang theory

51.

forces that two objects apply to each other 

a)

force pair

b)

motion

c)

unbalanced forces

d)

gravity

52.

total momentum of a group of objects remains the same unless outside forces act on the objects 

a)

Law of conservation of momentum

b)

Momentum

c)

Newton's third law of motion

d)

distance time graph

53.

measures of how hard it is to stop a moving object

a)

Momentum

b)

Newton's third law of motion

c)

gravity

d)

velocity

54.

for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction 

a)

Newton's third law of motion

b)

Newton's first law of motion

c)

Newton's second law of motion

d)

gravity

55.

True of False

Finding Speed: is V = distance/Time (Remember the V is for Velocity) you will divide distance by time. 

a)

True

b)

False

56.

True of False:

Finding Acceleration = velocity (f) - velocity (i)/ total time 

a)

True

b)

False

57.

What is Newton's first law of motion?

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58.

What is Newton's second law of motion?

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59.

What is Newton's third law of motion?

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60.

What is an example of Newton's first law of motion?

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61.

What is an example of Newton's second law of motion?

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62.

What is an example of Newton's third law of motion?

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63.

A ______ collision is when two objects collide and then travel on their separate ways.

a)

elastic

b)

inelastic

c)

speedometer

d)

contact

64.

An _____ collision is when two objects collide and then remain together. 

a)

inelastic

b)

elastic

c)

unbalanced

d)

magnetism

65.

1. An astronaut will ____ less on the moon due to differences in gravity.

2. An astronaut's ____ on the other hand will be the same no matter where they are. 

a)

1. weight

b)

2. mass

c)

1. mass

d)

2. weight

66.

A speedometer checks ______ speed 

a)

instantaneous

b)

constant

c)

average

d)

unbalanced

67.

What are noncontact forces?

a)

gravity

b)

magnetism

c)

pushing on a desk

d)

air resistance

68.

_______ occurs whenever there is a change in speed or direction 

a)

acceleration

b)

changing direction

c)

velocity

d)

motion