Pi & Circles
This is the distance across the center of a circle.
What is the diameter?
The star that planets orbit in our solar system.
What is the Sun?
6 × 7 = ?
What is 42?
A force is defined as this type of interaction.
What is a push or pull?
Words that sound the same but have different meanings are called this.
What are homophones?
The distance around a circle is called this.
What is the circumference?
This giant planet curently appears to move backward in the sky from Earth's perspective.
What is Jupiter?
24 × 5 = ?
What is 120?
Newton's First Law is often called the Law of this.
What is inertia?
“She ran like the wind” is this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
When you divide circumference by diameter, you get this famous number.
What is Pi?
This term describes when a planet appears to move backward in the night sky.
What is retrograde motion?
34 × 6 = ?
34 × 6 = ?
When forces cancel each other out and motion does not change, they are called this.
What are balanced forces?
“It’s raining cats and dogs” is this type of expression.
What is an idiom?
Pi begins with these first three digits.
What is 3.14?
Retrograde motion is an illusion caused by this planet passing Jupiter in its orbit.
What is Earth?
0.5 × 8 = ?
What is 4?
Forces that cause an object to start moving, stop moving, or change direction are called this.
What are unbalanced forces?
“The classroom was a zoo” is this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
If a pie has a diameter of 10 inches, its circumference is about this.
What is about 31.4 inches?
Retrograde motion happens because Earth and Jupiter move at different ____ around the Sun?
What are speeds (or orbital speeds)?
3.4 × 6 = ?
What is 20.4?
Scientists measure the strength, or magnitude, of a force using this unit.
What are Newtons?
This punctuation mark shows exactly what someone says when speaking.
What are quotation marks?