Well, I'm not completely sure, but, I'm going to try and help you: First, you would need to observe the machine, which, would represent the first step. Secondly, you would have to ask yourself a question, when the ball shoots out, which way are you going to hit it? Next, you'd have to hypothesize, which way the ball will come, which way will give you the most points. etc, etc. Then, you'd make a prediction based on your hypothesis, predict the direction that will give you the most points, and which way the ball will fall. Now, when the ball shoots out, you'd gave to test your prediction, then you'd see if your hypothesis was correct. Lastly, you would iterate, and, come up with new hypotheses, and, predictions, for when you play on round two, this would, also, help you get better at the game, just as, when you perform other scientific experiments, you would have a better idea on what would happen during them. I hope this helps!!!
The North American plate is moving towards the west-southwest at about 2.3 centimeters every year mediated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the spreading center, which gave rise to the Atlantic Ocean. The small Juan De Fuca plate, moving east-northeast at 4 centimeters every year, was once a component of much greater oceanic plates known as the Farallon plate.
The Farallon plate used to comprise what is now the Cocos plate of Mexico and Central America, and the Juan de Fuca plate in the region from N. Vancouver Island to the Cape Mendicino California, and a big sea floor tract in between. However, the middle portion of the Old Farallon plate disappeared underneath North America, it was subducted underneath California leaving the San Andreas fault system behind as the contact between the Pacific plates and North America.
The Juan De Fuca plate is still actively subducting underneath North America. Its movement is not smooth, however, rather sticky. The buildup of strain takes place until the fault dissociates and a few meters of Juan De Fuca get slid underneath North America in a big earthquake.
It is gravitational (potential) energy because of the place that the rock holds in the gravitational field. It has <u>potential</u> to move downward, because of <u>gravity</u>.