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Which mandate call us to use wise dominion over the earth?

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Creation Mandate

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Which Great Commandment is tat we love God with all our heats, souls, and minds?

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1st

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The goal of a model is no accuracy, but ______, or functionality/applicabilty.

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Workability

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Things or events observed to exist or occur are called what?

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Phenomena

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What are the results of a tested and proven theories?

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Laws

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The study of matter and energy and how those interact is called what?

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Physics

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The lens through which someone views the world is a _____?

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Worldview

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What is a simple representation of a more complex idea called?

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Model

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The study of the structure, composition, and properties of matter and how matter acts in the presence of other matter is known as:

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Chemistry

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Which type of science develops new technologies, producrts, materials?

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Applied Science

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The process of mixing by particle motion is known as what?

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Diffusion

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what is the building block of all matter?

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Atoms

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The number of _____ determines the type of atom and its atomic number.

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Protons

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Because gasses and liquids have the ability to flow they are classified as what?

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Fluids

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A change from a liquid to a solid is called what?

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Freezing

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Which is located in the nucleus of an atom?

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Nuetrons

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Which type of mixture contains large clumps of distinctly different kinds of matter?

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Heterogeneous

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Which type of changes alters the electron structure of atoms?

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Chemical

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What occurs when thermal energy is lost from a vapor through cooling?

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Condensation

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Matter that contains only one kind of atom or fixed ratio of different atoms is a _____?

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Pure Substance

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The S.I.’s base unit for measurement is the what?

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Meter

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Any artificial device made for the purpose of refining, extending, or substituting for the human senses when measuring is known as an:

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Instrment

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Which country established the decimal metric system?

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France

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What is the assessment of the measurement error?

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Accuracy

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The two parts of measured data are the number and the ______.
Unit
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Which indicates the amount of matter in an object and the effect of gravity?
Weight
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300 km has how many significant digits?
1
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9300.4 m has how many significant digits?
5
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The formula for speed is:
s=d/t
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Vectors are typically represented by:
Arrows
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The formula for acceleration is:
a=^v/^t | ^ is supposed to be delta, meaning a change in time
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Which quantity indicates how fast motion occurs?
Distance
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Everything inside the boundaries of what we study is known as the what?
System
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The modern study of motion is called what?
Mechanics
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What is the S.I. Unit for force?
Newton
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Who developed the 3 laws of motion?
Newton
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Which law states that objects at rest tend to stay at rest?
The law of inertia
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What force surrounds magnets and materials with electricity flowing through them?
Magnetic
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What force opposes motion?
Friction
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What is the gravitational acceleration of objects on earth at sea level?
9.81 m/s2 | 2 means sqaured
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Which law of motion states that for every action, there is an opposite but equal reaction?
The law of action-reaction
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Air resistance is a form of friction called what?
Drag
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Objects that fall due to gravity alone with no other forces acting on the are in what?
Free fall
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When an objects velocity is constant for the remainder of its fall, the object has reached what?
Terminal Velocity
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What are the 2 types of energy?
Potential and kinetic
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What is done when an object moves through a distance because of a force acting on it?
Work
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Systems that consist of lone individual particles acting as a single object may have what?
Mechanical energy
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What type of energy is the energy of an object due to its physical positions?
Mechanical potential energy
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The position from which the distance traveled is measured is called the what?
Zero reference position
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The sum of the kinetic energies of all particles in an object is its what?
Thermal energy
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The transmission of energy through matter by particle oscillations that occur in a specific direction is called what?
Thermal energy
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What is the potential energy stored in chemical bonds called?
Chemical energy
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What type of energy is associated with the nucleus of an atom?
Nuclear energy
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The largest potential source of energy in the universe is ____, the energy equivalent to all matter itself.
Mass energy
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What type of collision occurs when after the collision the rebounding objects are temporarily or permanently deformed in some way?
Partially elastic collision
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What is the definition of energy?
The ability to do work
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What is the S.I. Unit for energy
Joules
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What does the law of the conservation of energey state?
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed
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What is the S.I. unit of power?
The watt
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When a firce acts on an object to move it in a direction parallel to the force vector ______ occurs.
Mechanical work
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The force needed to begin moving the resistence is the:
Resistance Force
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The force actully exerted on the simple machine is called the:
Effot force
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Simple machines compensate for a smaller effort forceby exerting that for over a longer distance, a property called ______.
Distance principle
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When a seesaw is balanced and has no tendancy to teeter about the fulcrum, it is in a state of _____ _______.
Rotational Equilibrium
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A ______ is a modiefied wheel and axle.
Gear
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A pulley mounted on a fixed support is called a:
Single fixed pulley
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What is a 2D tilted surface that allows a resistence load to be moved from a lower position to one that is higher with less effort?
Inclined plane
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what is a fastene that exerts a large amount of force to hold objects together?
Screw
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In the U.S. screws are usually classified by their:
Thread count
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What is power?
The rate at which work is measured
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What isthe formula for power?
p=w/^t | ^ means delta, a change in time
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Examples of an inclined plane.
Stairs, Screw, Ramp
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Examples of a wedge.
Door-stop, Axe
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What is a pitch?
An inclined plane
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What are cylindrical screws with closely spread threads called?
Bolts
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Why are gasses and liquids both fluids?
They have the ability to float
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What is a factor that can affect fluid pressure?
Depth
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Objects weigh less in water when they are what?
Not immersed
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Why do fluids flow?
Beause the particles do not change and the pressure changes
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The pressure on a surface is a ratio of force to what?
Area
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Wht is the property of fluids tha states pressure is exerted equally in all directiions on a body of water?
Fluid pressure
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Water presure due to depth alone is called what?
Hydrostatic pressure
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What device is used to measure atmospheric pressure?
Barometer
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The lifting force that is responsible for ships floating is known as what?
Buoyant force
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What is the science of the transmission of forces and energy by liquids called?
Hydraulics
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The physics of flowing fluids is known as what?
Pneumatics
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A pressure sensing instrument uses a C-shaped sealed tube detector called what?
Bourdon tube
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Objects that sink are what?
Negatively buoyant
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A hydraulic pump works using what scientific principle?
Pascals principle
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What is the study of how fluids flow and how forces and energy are transmitted through?
Fluid mechanics
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Describe pascals principle
Changes of pressure on the surface of a confined fluid are exerted equally throughout the fluid and at all points on the fluids container
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What is Bernoulies principle?
An inviscid flow of a nonconducting fluid, an increase in the speed of the fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy.
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What is Boyle's law?
A gas law, stating that the pressure and volume of a gas have an inverse relationship, when temperature is held constant.
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What is Charles's law?
An experimental gas law which describes how gases tend to expand when heated.
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Who developed the caloric theory?
Antione Lavoiser
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The sum of all the energies inside a substance us called its what?
Internal energy
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The temperature of a substance is directly related to what kind of average energy of its atoms?
Kinetic enrergy
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Substances that are typically good conductors of electricity are also good conductors of what?
Heat
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The gaps in bridges are there for what?
Thermal expansion
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Early scientist believed that heat was actually a fluid called what?
Caloric
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Temperature is measured in a dimensional unit called what?
Degree
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On what scale is water's boiling point 212 degree?
Farenheit
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What scale includes absolute zero?
Kelvin
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The flow of thermal energy frim one place to anither is called what?
Heat
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Heat transfer through direct contact is ....
Conduction
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Heat via electromagnetic waves is known as ......
Radiation
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Heat transfer via fluid is what?
Convection

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