Force
Motion
Energy
Disasters
Potpourri
100

What is a force?

A push or pull in a certain direction

100

An object is moving. What will cause a change in its motion?

It has to be acted upon by another object or force.

100

What is energy

The ability to makes things move or change

100

The Loma Prieta Earthquake happened in this metro area

San Francisco 

100

This is the capital of Burkina Faso

Ouagadougou

200

A freight train and a VW bug collide with each other. Which experiences the greater force?

They both experience the same force

200

You need this to desribe the motion of an object.

A reference point

200

Can energy be created?

NOOOOOO! The amount of energy that is in the universe will not change, it only moves from place to place and form to form

200

Hurricane Andrew devastated Florida in this year

1992

200

His first song ever released was "That's All Right" in 1954. Thank you, thank you very much.

Elvis!

300

The sum of ALL forces acting on an object

Net force

300
When 2 object collide, which one will experience a greater change in velocity?

The less massive one

300

Electrical energy is made in this.

A generator!


300

his was the first earthquake Mr. T remembers. It happened in 1987 in a town not to far from here.

Whittier-Narrows Earthquake


300

Exactly this many elements have been named after people

19

400

Mr. T runs into a preschooler who is 1/250 his size. Who experiences a greater force?

They both experience the same force! Their changes in velocity will be different

400

This is when an object experiences a change in velocity

Acceleration

400

This type of nuclear energy is created by splitting atoms.

Fission!

400

Last year's 5th graders learned about this mostly human caused disaster that happened in the mid western US during the 1930's.

The dust bowl

400

This supercar company made tractors for farms first. When the owner had trouble buying a Ferrari, he started making his own super cars.

Lamborghini

500

What unit do we use to measure force?

Newton!

500

Describe 3 ways in which you are moving right now.

Answers will vary

500

This type of nuclear energy production could generate unlimited clean energy. Just like the sun.

Fusion!

500

Floods in 1931 killed more than 4,000,000 in this country.

China

500

Daytime evaporation of seawater and its eventual condensation over the Los Angeles basin creates this springtime seasonal over cast condition.

June Gloom / May Gray

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