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- 1. - to speed up
- 5. - a wire coil around a metal core (usually iron) that acts like a magnet when an electric current flows through it
- 7. - a piece of iron or other material that attracts other pieces of iron or steel
- 8. - the science of very low temperatures, far below the freezing point of water
- 10. - a place equipped for scientific research, experiments or testing
- 12. - a state of matter with definite volume but no definite shape, like water
- 14. - former name of Jefferson Lab; stands for Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
- 17. - a substance composed of two or more elements, such as water (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), or table sugar (C12H22O11)
- 18. Lab - a nuclear physics research facility built to explore quarks in the nucleus of the atom, located in Newport News, Virginia
- 23. - a material through which electricity or heat does not flow easily (like many plastics, glasses and ceramics)
- 24. - particles that hold quarks together
- 26. - a temperature scale that begins at absolute zero, where there is no molecular movement (Water freezes at 273 K and boils at 373 K.)
- 27. - a closed path through which an electric current flows
- 28. - an abbreviation for Linear Accelerator
- 30. Change - a change in the chemical composition of a substance to produce a new material with new properties (An example of a chemical change is wood turning to ash and smoke when it burns.)
- 32. - stands for Free Electron Laser; a tunable laser made by wiggling a beam of electrons (Jefferson Lab's FEL is the most powerful in the world.)
- 33. - a worldwide network of computers linked together for the purpose of exchanging information (also sometimes called the Information Superhighway or Cyberspace)
- 35. Current - movement of electricity, measured in charges per second (just as river current is measured in liters per second)
- 36. - information represented in the form of a picture, diagram or drawing
- 38. - a ray of light; a group of particles traveling together along a well-defined path
- 40. - any substance that cannot be broken up into simpler substances by chemical means (Currently 115 elements have been observed and are displayed on the Periodic Table of Elements. Gold, silver, iodine, oxygen and nickel are examples of elements.)
- 41. - a series of actions carried out to test a theory, demonstrate a fact or find out what happens
- 43. Reaction - a chemical change in which one or more substances are changed into one or more new substances
- 44. - the first section of an accelerator, where electrons are torn away from atoms and accelerated to an energy sufficient for them to be injected into the cavities of the accelerator
- 45. - a programmable machine that inputs, processes and outputs data
- 46. - an acronym for HyperText Markup Language; the programming language or code used for the creation of internet web pages
- 48. - the capacity to do work
- 49. - a temperature scale at which water freezes at 32° and boils at 212°
- 53. Variable - the responding variable; the variable that may change as a result of a change in the independent variable
- 54. - the transportation of heat or electricity from one place to another directly through an object (A frying pan is warmed by a hot stove due to conduction.)
- 55. - a temperature scale on which water freezes at 0° and boils at 100°
- 56. - a pattern of horizontal and vertical lines forming squares of uniform size on a map or chart
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- 2. Properties - characteristics of a substance that determine how it will react with other substances
- 3. - the acronym for Becoming Enthusiastic About Math and Science
- 4. Variable - the manipulated variable; the variable that is changed on purpose in an experiment
- 6. - a group of measurements, facts or statistics
- 9. - a material (like a metal) through which electricity and heat flow easily
- 11. - the measure of the amount of matter an object has in it; measured in grams or kilograms
- 13. - one of the two basic building blocks of matter (An electron is a lepton.)
- 15. - act with each other
- 16. - the process of making something look bigger
- 19. - a person who uses science and math to design, build or operate equipment, structures and systems (A person who receives a college degree in engineering might be an electrical, mechanical, industrial, chemical, environmental, biochemical or aeronautical engineer.)
- 20. Suspension - a material that has properties of more than one state of matter, such as Jell-o
- 21. - a set of numbers that determines the location of a point in space
- 22. - the transportation of heat from one place to another by the movement of a liquid or gas (A classroom is warmed by a hot air blower due to convection.)
- 25. Accelerator - a machine used in physics experiments that makes particles go faster in a straight line
- 27. - the amount of electricity carried by a body (A charge can be negative, like an electron, or positive, like a proton. Objects with opposite charges attract one another, while objects with like charges repel one another.)
- 29. - matter that is exactly the opposite in every way from its matter counterpart: antiquark/quark; positron/electron
- 31. - something that has mass which can exist in the form of a solid, liquid, gas or plasma
- 34. - steady; uninterrupted
- 36. - a state of matter with no definite shape or volume, like air
- 37. - a machine which accelerates charged particles to high energies
- 39. - a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas (Helium becomes a liquid near absolute zero. Liquid helium is used to cool Jefferson Lab's accelerator components.)
- 42. - a tiny particle with a negative charge which orbits an atom's nucleus
- 47. - a push or pull (There are four basic forces: gravitational, electromagnetic, strong nuclear and weak nuclear.)
- 50. - an educated guess that can be tested or investigated
- 51. - an atom or molecule that has an electric charge because it has either gained or lost electrons
- 52. - the smallest unit of a chemical element, made up of a nucleus surrounded by electrons