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What term describes the notion that a valid theory of nature must be in agreement with experimental results?
Scientific Method
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What term refers to an organized body of knowledge about the natural universe?
Science
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What term describes a fundamental relationship of nature?
Scientific Law
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What term refers to a very tentative explanation of an observation of some regularity of nature?
Hypothesis
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What is a hypothesis tested with?
Experiment
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What can a successfully tested hypothesis take the status of?
Theory
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What metric prefix refers to 1,000,000 times the base?
Mega
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What metric prefix refers to 1,000 times the base?
Kilo
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What metric prefix refers to 1/100th of the base?
Centi
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What metric prefix refers to 1/1000th of the base?
Milli
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What term refers to the method which is used to express the accuracy of a measured quantity?
Significant Figure
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What term refers to a combination of units?
Derived Unit
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What term describes mass per unit of volume?
Density
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What law states that during a chemical reaction, there exists no detectable change in the total mass?
Law of Conservation of Mass
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What law states that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant?
Law of Conservation of Energy
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What field of Science is the study of nature and interactions of matter and energy?
Physics
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What field of Science is the study of the composition, interactions, and the properties of matter?
Chemistry
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What field of Science is the study of the processes and phenomena of the atmosphere?
Meteorology
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What field of Science is the study of the universe, the totality of energy, matter, space, and time?
Astronomy
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What field of Science is the study of the planet Earth?
Geology
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What term refers to a continuous change in position?
Motion
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What kind of quantity has only magnitude?
Scalar Quantities
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What kind of quantity has both magnitude and direction?
Vector Quantities
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What type of quantity is distance?
Scalar Quantity
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What kind of quantity is displacement?
Vector Quantity
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What is the unbalanced force of an object if two equal and opposite forces act on an object?
0 N
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What is capable of producing motion or a change in motion?
Unbalanced Force
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What term refers to the straight-line distance and direction between two points?
Displacement
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What is the magnitude of a displacement to the magnitude of the distance traveled?
Less than or equal to
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What is derived by dividing distance by time?
Speed
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What is derived by dividing displacement by time?
Velocity
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What term refers to the rate at which an object’s velocity changes with time?
Acceleration
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If the magnitude of the velocity of an object increases, what can we be sure of?
Object is accelerated
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What is necessary for uniform circular motion?
Centripedal Acceleration
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What kind of velocity does a freely falling object have?
Uniformly Increasing Velocity
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What value is the acceleration due to gravity?
9.8 m/s^2
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What term demonstrates an object moving horizontally with a constant speed, with its vertical motion under the influence of gravity?
Projectile Motion
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Who developed the essentials of the first law of motion?
Galileo
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What term refers to the natural tendency of an object to remain at rest or in motion with a constant velocity?
Inertia
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What is a measure of inertia?
Mass
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If a spacecraft in space keeps going at the same velocity, even without firing its rockets, what law of motion is it in accordance with?
First Law of Motion
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A mass is accelerated when what acts upon the mass?
Unbalanced Force
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What law of motion states that the force pair acting on different objects that consist of two forces that are equal and in opposite directions?
Third Law of Motion
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What term refers to the force that supports a floating body?
Buoyant Force
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When will an object float?
Density of object less than density of water
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What requires motion?
Work
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If you lift a 15 N weight vertically 30 m above the ground, what are you doing?
Work against gravity
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What term tefers to the resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another?
Friction
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What is used in calculating work?
Parallel Force
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What is the product when mass and velocity are multiplied?
Linear Momentum
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What energy is the energy of motion?
Kinetic Energy
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What energy is the energy of position?
Potential Energy
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What is derived by dividing work by time?
Power
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What term refers to the capacity to do work or vigorous activity?
Energy
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What is the quantity 1/2(mV^2) known as?
Kinetic Energy
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What is the quantity mgh known as?
Potential Energy
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What term refers to a relative measure of hotness and coldness?
Temperature
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What temperature scale has no negative readings?
Kelvin
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What does the average kinetic energy of the molecules in a gas measure?
Temperature
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What term refers to the amount of heat necessary to change the temperature of 1 kg of a substance by 1 degree Celsius?
Specific Heat
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What term refers to the energy that moved from where it is hot to where it is cold?
Heat
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What term refers to the heat transfer that involves the transfer of molecular kinetic energy?
Conduction
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How are the sun’s rays transmitted to Earth?
Radiation
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Heat transfer in a room by a fire in a stove refers to what?
Convection
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What term refers to the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, or gas?
Pressure
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In a neutral atom, what is the proportion of protons to electrons?
Equal
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What term refers to the positively charged central core of an atom that contains most of its mass?
Nucleus
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What term refers to the sample of matter that contains atoms that all have the same number of protons?
Element
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What type of particle has a negative charge and orbits the nucleus?
Electron
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What type of particle has a positive charge and is found in the nucleus?
Proton
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What differs between isotopes of an element?
Neutrons
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What term refers to a substance composed of two or more elements chemically combined in a definite, fixed proportion by mass?
Compound
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What term refers to a non-chemical combination of two or more substances in variable proportions?
Mixture
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What type of electrons are found in the outermost shell?
Valence Electrons
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What bond is formed by the transfer of electrons?
Ionic Bond
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What bond is formed by the sharing of electrons?
Covalent Bond
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What term refers to the fourth state of matter, a hot ionized gas consisting of approximately equal numbers of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons?
Plasma
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