Describe Position
Speed and Velocity
Motion Graph
Vocabulary
Science class
100
reference point
What is the starting point you choose to describe the location or position of an object?
100
speed
What is a measure of the distance an object travels per unit of time?
100

Distance/Time Graph

What is a measure of distance over time?

100
motion
What is the process of changing position?
100

Counter in the back of the class

Where is my science notebook?

200
position
What is an object's distance and direction from a reference point?
200
constant speed
What is the rate of change of position in which the same distance is traveled each second?
200

increasing speed, decreasing speed, or changing direction

What happens when the angle of the graph changes?

200
constant
What is the same or does not change?
200

Give me 5

Stop talking, look at the teacher(me)
300

North, South, East, West, positive, negative

What are words sometimes used to describe direction?

300
instantaneous speed
What is speed at a specific time?
300

Steep incline

What is a fast speed?

300
object at rest (speed time graph)
What is an object not moving?
300

Be on Time

Be of Task

Be prepared

Be respectful

Be Responsible

What are the 5 BE's of success

400
north, south, east ,west
What are other words that may be used to describe direction?
400
average speed
What is the total distance traveled divided by the total time taken to travel that distance?
400
x axis
What is the horizontal axis?
400
speeding up (speed time graph)
What is the distance or speed increasing?
400

11

What are the number of students in the class?

500
displacement
What is the difference between the initial position and the final position of the object?
500
velocity
What is the speed and direction of a moving object?
500
y axis
What is the vertical axis?
500
slowing down (speed time graph)
What is decrease in speed and distance rate decreases over time?
500
always write the question first
What do you do in your science notebook when answering questions?
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