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a place or object used for comparison to determine if something is in motion.
What is reference point
The shortest distance between two points with direction.
What is Displacement
When the velocity of an object changes
What is Acceleration
Distance Divided By Time
What is speed
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth
action or process of moving or being moved.
What is Motion
is a number that tells you how fast or slow an activity occurs.
What is Rate
Speed in a given direction
What is velocity
the object is moving in the negative direction
What is negative velocity
When Michael Jordan played for the Chicago Bulls, how many NBA Championships did he win?
What is six
How far from the starting point the object moved.
What is Distance
a way of measuring how quickly something is moving
What is Speed
the speed of an object at a certain instant of time.
What is Instantaneous Speed
that the object is moving in the positive direction
What is final velocity
discovered penicillin
Who is Alexander Fleming
a quantity that can be described by magnitude only and has no direction
What is a Scalar quantity
What variables do you need to measure?
distance and time
the total distance traveled by the object divided by the elapsed time to cover that.
what is Average Speed
the rate that the position of an object changes relative to time
What is initial velocity
natural disaster is measured with a Richter scale
What are earthquakes
A quantity that has magnitude and direction
What is Vector
Quantities that can be described by a single number
What are scalars
of an object is means the speed does not change during the entire trip.
What is constant speed
the object is moving in the positive direction
What is positive velocity
planet that has the most gravity
What is Jupiter