Misc. and Laws
Motion and Speed
Vocabulary
Forces
Gravity and Motion
100

The ability to cause change or do work.

What is Energy?

100

Which two measurements are needed to determine the speed of an object? 

What is distance and time? 

100

Rate at which velocity changes

What is acceleration?

100

push or pull

What is force

100

Force of attraction between two objects due to their mass.

What is gravity?

200

States that whenever one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object exerts an equal and opposite force on the first. 

What is Newton's 3rd law?

200
What describes the tendency of a moving object to continue moving at the same velocity?

What is inertia? 

200

The speed and direction of a moving object.

What is velocity?

200

Unit that measures force

What is a newton?

200
When acceleration and velocity are in opposing directions, the speed will what? 

What is decrease?

300

A point of location where you compare other locations?

What is reference point.

300

A plane flies 2500 miles in 10 hours, this would be it's average speed.

  250 mph?

300

The distance an object moves in a unit of time.

What is increase in speed

300

Force that holds things to the Earth's surface

What is gravity?

300

Gravity is a result of _____

What is mass?

400

Energy that can be neither created nor destroyed. It can only be transformed.

What is law of conservation of energy?

400

The family drove 65 mph for 3 hours.

What is 195 miles?

400
A cup of coke is left on the roof of a sports car. When the sports car begins to move, the coke does not move forward with the sports car. Instead, it falls off. What happened to the cup of water? 

What is inertia? It keep the cup from moving while the car moved forward. 

400

Combination of all the forces acting on an object

What is net force?

400

A skydiver jumps out of a plane. He falls downward at a very fast speed.when he opens his parachute, he slows down. He falls at a safer pace until he lands. What force pulled the skydiver to the ground? 

What is gravity.

500
States that F=MA

What is Newton's 2nd Law? 

500

Justin is practicing his serve for a tennis match. His coach measures the speed of the ball just after Justin hits it. What does his speed indicate?

What is how fast the ball is moving?

500

The process of changing position.

What is motion?

500

Unbalanced forces produce __________

What is motion?

500

This creates motion.

What is force?

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