26 questions
What is the title of our first unit.
Vision and Light
Waves and Energy
Energy Conversions
Speed
What is the unit question?
What causes blackouts?
How does the electrical system work?
What is energy?
What is a blackout?
What is your role in this Unit?
Engineer
Basketball player
Scientist
Teacher
What keeps occurring in the city of Ergstown?
floods
blackouts
strong winds
storms
What is a blackout?
When the lights are out only in your home.
When the lights are out in a large area.
When you turn the lights off in your room and it gets dark.
When your light bulb blows out.
What is an engineer?
A person who works in a chemical plant.
Someone who works on engines.
A person who uses science knowledge to design something in order to solve a problem
Someone who works in a hospital.
In this unit we will learn about what type of systems?
game systems
electrical systems
work systems
elevator system
Was the lamp on or off in the house?
on
off
neither on or off
Our role in this unit is to help the city of Ergstown by figuring out the cause of their blackouts and to come up with a design that will help fix the issue.
True
False
What is a system?
A group of parts that work together.
Parts
Something that functions
One part that functions alone
Which is an example of a system?
PS4
Refrigerator
Microwave
All of the above
What was the name of the system that removed the seed from a cherry?
Poker
Handle
Cherry Pitter
Cherry Poker
A system has _________that has a specific function.
Material
Jobs
Parts
things
What is the meaning of function?
To change.
To move.
To do work.
What something can do.
What was the name of the system we built?
Simple electrical system
Stairs
Chair
Cherry handle
What did the cherry pitter and the simple electrical system have in common?
They both remove the seed from the cherry
They both made the fan work
They both have parts
Nothing
If a bicycle does not have handle bars it would still be able to function.
True
False
If the cherry pitter did not have the poker it would not be able to function.
True
False
What gave energy to the simple electrical system.
Air
Wind
Sun
Electricity
Which of the following were parts of our simple electrical system?
Solar panel
wires
fan
all of the above
Electrical energy is a form of output energy.
True
False
The input energy for all electrical devices is
motion energy
chemical energy
electrical energy
light energy
Energy that cause the temperature of the system to change.
Heat (thermal) energy
light energy
motion energy
sound energy
Energy that causes a system to give off light.
sunlight
sound energy
light energy
motion energy
Energy that causes objects to move or change positions.
movement energy
motion energy
electrical energy
light energy
Energy that causes a system to produce sound.
motion energy
light energy
heat energy
sound energy