Motion Vocabulary
Distance and Reference Points
Speed and Velocity
Acceleration
Interpreting Graphs
100
The distance an object travels in one unit of time.
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
The speed of a lion running 21 meters across the savannah in 3 seconds
What is 7 meters per second?
100
Acceleration is described as changes in ________, changes in ___________, or both.
What are speed and direction?
100
Speed of a car if the line on the distance-time graph is horizontal.
What is zero?
200
The speed at which an object is traveling and the direction it is traveling.
What is velocity?
200
The distance a runner travels if they start at the 100 meter mark and sprint to the 400 meter mark on the track.
What is 300 meters
200
The velocity of a train car if its distance-time graph indicates that it traveled 200 meters in 25 seconds and it is heading north.
What is 8 meters per second north?
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 with a positive slope.
What is moving at constant speed?
300
The rate at which an object is moving at a given time.
What is instantaneous speed?
300
The total distance Molly travels if she walks 4 blocks north and then 3 blocks east.
What is 7 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 final velocity (or speed) minus initial velocity (or speed), divided by the total time?
300
Acceleration of a car if the line on a speed-time graph is a horizontal line.
What is moving at constant speed (zero acceleration)?
400
A place or object used for comparison to determine if something is in motion.
What is a reference point?
400
Bo and Joe are riding up an escalator together. Joe is Bo's reference point. Joe's movement relative to Bo.
What is zero (no movement)?
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
Acceleration of a car if the line on a speed-time graph is a straight line going upward.
What is speeding up (positive acceleration)?
500
The rate at which velocity (or speed) changes over time.
What is acceleration?
500
Bo and Jo are riding up an escalator together when they see their friend Moe standing at the bottom. Jo is moving relative to this friend (Bo or Mo).
Who is Mo?
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 400,000 kilometers per second to full speed of 900,000 kilometers per second in 10 seconds.
What is 50,000 kilometers per second squared?
500
Acceleration of a car if the line on a speed-time graph is a straight line down.
What is slowing down (negative acceleration)?
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