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

The 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.

What is instantaneous speed?

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 graph is horizontal How would you describe its speed?

What is constant speed?

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 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 graph is horizontal How would you describe its acceleration?

What is zero acceleration?

300

The speed at a specific point in time.

What is instantaneous speed?

300

The position of an object can be described by this vocab term.

What is a reference point?

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 (Vf-Vi) divided by the total time?

300

Motion of a car if the line on the graph is going down How would you describe its speed?

What is slowing down?

400

The direction and total distance 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

Motion of a car if the line on the graph is going down How would you describe its acceleration?

What is negative acceleration?

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 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 the graph is going up How would you describe its speed?

What is speeding up?

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