Energy Vocabulary
Rules of Motion
Scientific Concepts
Understanding Motion
100

To apply force.

What is exertion?

100

Required to change the velocity of an object.

What is force?
100

Changed in an experiment to observe how an object responds to that change.

What is an independent variable?
100
Causes a greater change in velocity than a weaker one.

What is a strong force?

200
Speed in a particular direction. 

What is velocity

200

Depends on the direction of the force exerted on an object.

What is velocity?

200

Responds to the change in an experiment.

What is a dependant variable?

200

When two objects collide.

What is a collision?

300

An event or process that leads to a result or change.

What is a cause?

300

Equivalent to mass times acceleration. 

What is force?

300

To reach a conclusion using evidence and reasoning. 

What is an inference?

300

A surface that causes objects that are traveling to slow down faster because of friction.

What is a rough surface?

400

A result or change that happens because of an event or process.

What is an effect?

400

The measure in which force is recorded.

What are Newtons?
400

A relationship that can help you infer what led to a particular result. 

What is a cause-and-effect relationship?

400

A surface that allows objects to travel farther because of less friction.

What is a smooth surface?

500
A force between an object and the surface it is moving over.

What is friction?

500

Causes objects to lose velocity as they move.

What is friction?

500

The unit that scientists measure mass with. 

What are grams?

500

What the direction of the object's travel maybe after it collides with another object.

What is the opposite direction?

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