Directions
Compass
The starting point you use to describe the location or postition of an object
Reference Point
Using positive in directions means moving
forward
What is the first step of the scientific method?
Question
Communicate your _______________
Results
The opposite of North is
South
What does displacement describe?
The change from starting position to ending position
Using negative in directions means moving
backwards
What is a hypothesis?
Educated guess
A student measures a ball’s location from a tree. What is the tree?
Reference Point
The opposite of South
North
One of the two requirements for position
distance
What does speed tell you?
how fast you are going
A scientist reviews data and looks for patterns. Which step is this?
Analysis
Walking to the right is the positive direction. Which movement is positive?
Right
West
Velocity is a vector quantity. What does a vector quantity include?
direction and speed
Motion
Walking to the right is the positive direction. Which movement is negative?
Walking to the left
The Opposite of West
East
Speed is a scalar quantity. What does a scalar quantity include?
Size
The difference between the first position and the final position is
Data
A toy car travels the same distance each second. What type of speed is this?
constant speed