Motion Vocabulary
Distance and Displacement
Speed and Velocity
Acceleration
Interpreting Graphs
100

The distance an object moves to the amount of time needed to travel the distance.

What is speed?

100

A person's displacement if they walk 5 miles North, 3 miles south, 1 mile North, and 3 miles South?

What is 0 miles?

100

This is has units of meters per second.

What is speed or velocity?

100

Acceleration is described as changes in ________, changes in ___________, or both.

What are speed/velocity and direction?

100
Motion of a car if the line on the distance-time graph is horizontal.
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 she drives 4 miles east from her house to pick up her friend Dave, and then drive 2 more miles east to school.

What is 6 miles, East?

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 line going up.

What is moving at constant speed in the positive direction?

300

The slope of a position versus time graph.

What is velocity?

300

The direction associated with North, East, up, or right on a number line or graph?

What is positive?

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 final velocity minus initial velocity divided by the total time?

300

Motion of a car if the line on a distance-time graph is a straight line going down.

What is moving at constant speed in the negative direction?

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 distance 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 6 blocks?

400

A person's velocity if they run 1 full 500 meter lap in 250 seconds.

What is 0 m/s?

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
Motion of a car if the line on a distance-time graph is curving upward.
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
This motion is shown by a velocity vs time graph in the fourth quadrant.

What is moving backwards?

500
The acceleration of a race car that goes from a pace car speed of 400000 kilometers per second to full speed of 900000 kilometers per second in 10 seconds.
What is 50000 kilometers per second squared?
500

Motion of a car if the line on a velocity-time graph is a straight line down in the fourth quadrant.

What is speeding up in the negative direction?

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