Force and Motion
Work
Vocabulary
Simple Machines
Energy
100
a push or a pull
What is force?
100
the units that are used to measure work
What are newton-meters?
100
a tool with few or no moving parts
What is a simple machine?
100
a simple machine made of a wheel and rope
What is a pulley?
100
moving energy
What is kinetic energy?
200
a change in position
What is motion?
200
pushing a chair with a force of 5 newtons, 8 meters across a room.
What is 40 newton-meters
200
a unit used to measure the force of an object
What is a Newton?
200
A simple machine which has a bar and is supported by a fulcrum
What is lever?
200
energy waiting to be used
What is potential energy?
300
A change in surface affects the distance a car rolls due to this force.
What is friction?
300
pushing a wheelbarrow full of dirt across the driveway
What is an example of work?
300
a force caused by two things rubbing together
What is friction?
300
A simple machine that is an inclined plane wrapped around a center post
What is a screw?
300
A type of energy made by vibrations
What is sound energy?
400
The steeper an inclined plane, the faster the object will move. A term used to describe how fast something moves
What is speed?
400
lifting a stack of library books with a force of 20 newtons, 3 meters high.
What is 60 newton-meters?
400
the ability to do work
What is energy?
400
a simple machine that has two inclined planes, used to cut or split an object
What is wedge?
400
A form of energy that our eyes can see
What is light energy?
500
It takes more force to move a soccer ball than a marble because the soccer ball has more _______.
What is mass?
500
pushing against a wall
What is a non-example of work?
500
a force that pulls objects to the center of the Earth
What is gravity
500
A simple machine that is a flat surface with one end higher than the other
What is an inclined plane?
500
a form of energy that warms things
What is heat/thermal energy?
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