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BIMESTER 1
By Nancy Barbosa
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY pgs. NOS 6 to NOS 8
A process that uses a variety of skills and tools to answer questions or to
test ideas
ASK QUESTIONS
Observations: the result of using one or more of your senses to gather
information and taking note of what occurs. Observations often lead to
questions . An inference is a logical explanation of an observation that is
drawn from prior knowledge or experience.
HIPOTHEZISE AND PREDICT
After making observations and inferences you might develop a
hypothesis a possible explanation for an observation that can be tested
by scientific investigation. Make predictions a prediction is a statement of
what will happen next in a sequence of events.
TEST HIPOTHESIS AND ANALIZE RESULTS
When you test a hypothesis, you often test your predictions. To test your
predictions a hypothesis you could design an experiment. After doing an
experiment or research you need to analyze your results and findings.
DRAW CONCLUSIONS
After analyzing your results you can begin to draw conclusions. A
conclusion is a summary of the information gained from testing a
hypothesis.
COMMUNICATE RESULTS
Sharing the results of a scientific inquiry.
SCIENTIFIC LAW
Rule that describes a repeatable pattern in nature. States that an event
WILL occur.
SCIENTIFIC THEORY
An explanation of observations or events that is based on knowledge
gained from many observations and investigations. An explanation of
WHY or HOW an event occurred.
BOTH ARE BASED ON REPEATED OBSERVATIONS
Cover the word you want to find and thats the formula! Speed : distance/time.
Time : distance /speed. Distance :speed x time
The SI unit for speed is meter per second(m/s)
CONSTANT SPEED is the rate of change of position in which the same distance is
raveled each second
INSTANTANEUOS SPEED is speed at a specific instant in time
AVERAGE SPEED is the total distance traveled divided by the total time to travel
that distance ( distance /time)
You can use distance-time graphs to compare the motion of two different
objects
You can use distance-time graphs to calculate the average speed of an object
VELOCITY is the speed and the direction of a moving object . vector
ACCELERATION
ACCELERATION is a measure of the change in velocity during a period time
Like velocity, acceleration has a direction and can be represented by an arrow
Acceleration = vf-vi
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SI prefixes
VECTORS
Graphical method