The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion.
What is intertia?
Mrs. Kunkel rolled a marble across the floor to Mrs. Plummer What force started the ball rolling? (balanced force, unbalanced force, gravity, friction)
What is an unbalanced force?
A force that causes metal objects with opposite poles to move towards each other.
What is attraction?
This is the force that acts on a space shuttle as it accelerates toward Earth.
What is gravity?
A force that causes metal objects with the same poles to move away from each other.
What is repel?
What is contact force?
Which will experience more acceleration when the same force is applied, a 10kg object or a 5kg object?
What is the 5kg object?
Friction is a force caused by___________.
What is surfaces rubbing against one another?
Suzette drops a ball and it falls to the ground. What does this illustrate about gravity?
A. Gravity pulls the ball toward the center of Earth. B. Gravity causes the friction on the ball to disappear.
C. Gravity pushes the ball away from Suzetteās hands.
D. Gravity causes the mass of the ball to decrease as it falls.
A. Gravity pulls the ball toward the center of Earth.
Jack and Sara were experimenting with a magnet. They found some objects that a magnet attracts. What material must the objects be made of?
What is iron, cobalt, nickel?
The rate at which the speed or direction of an object changes over time.
What is acceleration?
Ruben gives a book a push and it slides across the floor. Eventually the book will stop sliding. What is the main reason that the book stops?
Friction causes things to slow down.
Elvira pushes a plastic toy car to set it in motion. Which force is NOT acting on the car?
A. pulling force from gravity
B. pushing force from her hand
C. magnetic force from the north pole
D. friction between the wheels and the surface
C. magnetic force from the north pole
This force helps form the shape of our stars, planets, and moons by pulling equally from all directions towards their centers.
What is gravity?
Alex drops a box of pins on the floor and the pins scatter. His mother hands him an object that attracts the pins so Alex can pick them up more easily. What force most likely causes the pins to stick to the object?
A. gravity
B. friction
C. electrical force
D. magnetic force
D. magnetic force
A car is moving at a constant speed. What is a typical way for the driver to change the motion of the car?
A. apply a horizontal force by using the brakes
B. change the mass of the car
C. balance the forces acting on the car
D. remove the friction between the car and the road
A. apply a horizontal force by using the brakes
Nathan attaches a stapler to a spring scale. What is the spring scale measuring?
What is the force of gravity?
The effect of the moon's gravity on the Earth.
What are the tides?
Kanoa holds two bar magnets as shown in the picture. Which of the following best describes what she feels?
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A. Magnetic force pulls the magnets together.
B. Magnetic force pushes the magnets apart.
C. The two magnetic fields cancel each other out.
D. The magnetic fields cause the magnets to heat up.
A. Magnetic force pulls the magnets together.