Motion Vocabulary
The ratio of the distance an object moves to the amount of time needed to travel the distance.
What is speed?
What is the formula for distance?
What is speed x time?
Acceleration is described as changes in ________, changes in ___________, or both.
What are speed and direction?
The speed at which an object is traveling and the direction it is traveling.
What is velocity?
If you were traveling at 30 miles per hour, how long would it take to travel a distance of 70 miles?
What is 2.33 hours?
The acceleration of a bus moving at a constant speed of 50 miles per hour.
What is zero?
Moving matter from one place to another.
What is motion?
A car goes 40 mph for 4 hours. How far did the person drive?
What is 160 miles?
What kind of line shows acceleration on a speed v. time graph?
What is a line curved up?
This is a push or pull exerted on an object.
What is force?
If Mallory is driving her car at 50 miles per hour, and has to travel a distance of 1,247 miles, how long will it take her to get to her destination?
What is 24.92 miles?
What type of line shows deceleration?
What is a line that begins going up then flattens out?
The rate at which velocity changes.
What is acceleration?
John wants to know how long it will take him to get to his destination that is 1,589 miles away. He can take one route that he will drive 65 miles per hour or another route where he will only be able to go 55 miles per hour. Which route will be best? Show your work and be able to explain why.
What is the route going 65 miles per hour? When going 65 miles per hour John will only take 24.4 hours to get to his destination. But if he goes 55 miles per hour it will take 28.9 hours.
A jogger's average speed if she jogs 5 kilometers in 57 minutes?
What is 0.09 kilometers per minute?
Acceleration only takes place when things speed up?
FALSE