WorksheetsScience Mid-Term
Total questions: 68
Worksheet time: 2hrs 2mins
What is comparing what you already know with the information you are given in order to decide whether you agree with it?
critical thinking
hypothesis
inference
science
What are possible explanations for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations?
hypothesis
science
scientific law
technology
What is a logical explanation of an observation that is drawn from prior knowledge or experience?
inference
scientific law
observation
hypothesis
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?
observation
science
scientific law
technology
What is the investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new information that results from those investigations?
science
scientific law
Newton's first law of motion
inference
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?
scientific law
observation
inference
hypothesis
What is practical use of scientific knowledge, especially for industrial or commercial?
technology
scientific law
description
percent error
What is spoken or written summary of observations explanation interpretation of observations?
description
percent error
scientific notation
constant
What is internationally accepted system of measurement?
International System of Units (SI)
metric
scientific notation
constant
What is the expression of error as a percentage of the accepted value?
percent error
scientific notation
constant
gravity
What is method of writing or displaying very small or very large numbers?
scientific notation
percent proportion
constant
control group
What is a factor in an experiment that stays the same?
constant
control group
dependent variable
experiential group
What contains the same factors as the experimental group, but the independent variable is not changed?
control group
experimental group
dependent variable
qualitative data
What is the factor you observe or measure during an experiment?
dependent variable
experimental group
independent variable
quantitative data
What is used to study how a change in the independent variable changes the dependent variable?
experimental group
independent variable
dimension
displacement
What is the factor that you want to test; is changed by the investigator to observe how it affects a dependent variable?
independent variable
qualitative data
quantitative data
motion
What are words used to describe what is observed?
qualitative data
quantitative data
Dimension
displacement
What are numbers used to describe what is observed variable any factor that can have more than one value?
quantitative data
qualitative data
dimension
relative
What is distance or length measured in one direction?
dimension
displacement
motion
reference point
What is difference between initial position and final position of an object?
displacement
motion
position
relative
What is the process of changing position?
motion
reference point
specify
relative
What is an object's distance and direction from a reference point?
position
reference point
relative
specify
What is starting point that you choose to describe the location, or position of an object?
reference point
displacement
relative
specify
What is compared to?
relative
specify
average speed
velocity
What is to indicate or identify?
specify
relative
average speed
reference point
What is distance divided by time?
average speed
constant speed
speed
velocity
What is rate of change of position in which the same distance is traveled each second?
constant speed
speed
velocity
acceleration
What is speed at a specific instant in time?
Instantaneous speed
speed
velocity
acceleration
What is distance an object travels per unit of time?
speed
velocity
acceleration
vertical
What is speed and direction of a moving object?
velocity
acceleration
contact force
friction
What is measure of the change in velocity during a period of time?
acceleration
horizontal
vertical
gravity
What is the x-axis on a graph?
horizontal
vertical
contact force
mass
What is y-axis on a graph?
vertical
horizontal
mass
gravity
a push or pull on an object by another object that is touching it
contact force
non contact force
friction
static
a push or pull on an object
force
friction
gravity
mass
force that resists the motion of two surfaces that are touching
friction
gravity
mass
weight
Attractive force that exists between all objects that have mass
gravity
mass
non contact force
weight
Amount of matter in an object
mass
non contact force
static
weight
a force one object can apply to another without touching it
non contact force
static
contact forces
balanced forces
at rest or having no motion
static
weight
contact force
balanced forces
gravitational force exerted on an object
weight
mass
velocity
speed
combined forces form a net force of zero
balanced forces
unbalanced forces
inertia
net force
tendency of an object to resist a change in motion
inertia
friction
reference direction
unbalanced force
combination of all the forces acting on an object
net force
Newton's first law of motion
reference direction
unbalanced forces
The motion of an object does not change if the net force on an object is zero.
Newton's first law of motion
Newton's second law of motion
Newton's third law of motion
law of conservation
given direction from a starting point to describe an object's position
reference direction
unbalanced forces
circular motion
gravity
combined forces that form a net force is not zero
unbalanced forces
balanced forces
motion
reference point
a force in circular motion that acts perpendicular to the direction of motion toward the center of the circle
Centripetal Force
Circular motion
Newton's second law of motion
force pair
any motion in which an object is moving along a curved path
circular motion
gravity
velocity
mass
acceleration is equal to the net force exerted on the object divided by the object's mass
Newton's second law of motion
Newton's first law of motion
Newton's third law of motion
the big bang theory
forces that two objects apply to each other
force pair
motion
unbalanced forces
gravity
total momentum of a group of objects remains the same unless outside forces act on the objects
Law of conservation of momentum
Momentum
Newton's third law of motion
distance time graph
measures of how hard it is to stop a moving object
Momentum
Newton's third law of motion
gravity
velocity
for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
Newton's third law of motion
Newton's first law of motion
Newton's second law of motion
gravity
True of False
Finding Speed: is V = distance/Time (Remember the V is for Velocity) you will divide distance by time.
True
False
True of False:
Finding Acceleration = velocity (f) - velocity (i)/ total time
True
False
What is Newton's first law of motion?
What is Newton's second law of motion?
What is Newton's third law of motion?
What is an example of Newton's first law of motion?
What is an example of Newton's second law of motion?
What is an example of Newton's third law of motion?
A ______ collision is when two objects collide and then travel on their separate ways.
elastic
inelastic
speedometer
contact
An _____ collision is when two objects collide and then remain together.
inelastic
elastic
unbalanced
magnetism
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.
1. weight
2. mass
1. mass
2. weight
A speedometer checks ______ speed
instantaneous
constant
average
unbalanced
What are noncontact forces?
gravity
magnetism
pushing on a desk
air resistance
_______ occurs whenever there is a change in speed or direction
acceleration
changing direction
velocity
motion
