Motion Vocabulary
Distance and Displacement
Speed and Velocity
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Interpreting Graphs
100
The ratio of the distance an object moves to the amount of time needed to travel the distance.
What is speed?
100
Of the following, the one that would be most practical for measuring the length of your finger. kilometers miles centimeters feet
What is centimeters?
100

This is measured by your car's speedometer. (It is the speed at that particular instant)

What is instantaneous speed?

100

The name of Mr. C's doggo

What is Riley? 

100

Motion of a car if the line on the distance-time graph is horizontal. (speeding up? slowing down? not moving? constant speed? etc)


What is not moving?

200
The speed at which an object is traveling and the direction it is traveling.
What is velocity?
200
Nikki's total displacement if he drives 4 miles east from his house to pick up his friend Dave, and then drive 2 more miles east to school.
What is 6 miles?
200
The speed of a train car if its distance-time graph indicates that it traveled 200 meters in 25 seconds.
What is 8 meters per second?
200

This is the number of slices that typically come in a pizza. 

What is eight?

200

The variable located on the x-axis

What is the independent variable?

300
The rate at which an object is moving at a given time.
What is instantaneous speed?
300
A system of objects that are not moving with respect to one another.
What is a frame of reference?
300
The faster runner if Bo runs 4 miles in 1 hour, and Mo runs 2 miles in 20 minutes.
Who is Mo?
300

The word describing the quantity of a fluid/liquid

What is volume?

300

The dependent variable goes on this axis 

What is the y-axis? 

400
The direction from the starting point and the length of a straight line from the starting point to the ending point.
What is displacement?
400
Monique's total displacement if she walks 2 blocks east to her friend Carla's house, then 4 blocks west (past her own house) to her friend Kate's house.
What is 2 blocks?
400
A train's average speed if it travels 190 kilometers in 3 hours, and then 120 kilometers in 2 hours.
What is 62 kilometers per hour?
400

The number of seconds there are in one year (assuming there are exactly 365 days in a year, each day being exactly 24 hrs) 

What is 31,536,000?

400

Motion of a car if the line on a distance-time graph is curving upward. (Is it slowing down? Speeding up? going at a constant speed? Not moving?)

What is speeding up?

500
The rate at which velocity changes.
What is acceleration?
500
Johnny's total displacement if he walks 2 miles to the school, and then takes the short cut back home that is only 1 mile.
What is zero?
500
A jogger's average speed if she jogs 4 kilometers in 32 minutes, then 2 kilometers in 22 minutes, and finally 1 kilometer in 16 minutes.
What is 0.1 kilometers per minute?
500

the 4 qualities of campbell student's as stated in the Mission Statement

Character, COurage, Respect, Responsibility 

500

On a distance-time graph, time is typically plotted on this axis

What is the x-axis?

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