scientific vocabulary
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- Speed
- distance/time
- Average time
- total distance/total time
- velocity
- speed in a given direction
- distance
- speed X time
- Unbalanced forces
- forces that push an object in same or opposite direction make the object move, stop or change direction
- balanced forces
- Equal forces acting on an object in opposite direction
- Acceleration
- The reate at which velocity changes
- gravity
- the force that pulls objects toward each other
- Law
- The rule in science
- Manipulated variable
- The ONE factor that a scientist changes in an experiment
- Variable
- Any factor that can change in an experiment
- Phrenology
- A pseudoscience that was the study of teh structure if the skull to determine intelligence and character in a person.
- Alchemy
- a pseudoscientific ancestor of chemistry in the Middle Ages
- Data Table
- A table used to calculate a lot of "what-ifs" in one operation and to show all the results on one worksheet
- Air resistance
- the fluid friction experienced by objects falling through the air