Motion Vocabulary
Distance and Displacement
Speed and Velocity
Acceleration
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 taking the total distance over the total time
What is average speed?
100
Acceleration is described as ________,___________, or ___________.
What are speeding up, slowing down, or changing direction?
100
Motion of a car if the line on the distance-time graph is horizontal.
What is not moving?
200
The speed in a given direction
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
The acceleration of a bus moving at a constant speed of 50 miles per hour.
What is zero?
200
Motion of a car if the line on the distance-time graph is a straight diagonal line.
What is moving at constant speed?
300
a number that has a direction attached to it?
What is a vector
300
What is the distance traveled if Johnny walks 4 blocks east, 4 blocks north, for blocks west, and 4 blocks south?
What is a 16 blocks?
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 formula for calculating acceleration.
What is the change in velocity divided by the total time?
300
Motion of a car if the line on a distance-time graph is a curve.
What is accelerating?
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 west?
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 acceleration of a car traveling at 10 meters per second that takes 20 seconds to stop.
What is -0.5 meters per second squared?
400
Describe the motion of the following graph
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 acceleration of a race car that goes from a pace car speed of .40 kilometers per second to full speed of .90 kilometers per second in 10 seconds.
What is 0.05 kilometers per second squared?
500
The area of a velocity time graph represents the _______.
What is displacement.