Motion Vocabulary
Distance
Speed and Velocity
Time
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 units for distance, the one that would be most practical for measuring the length of your finger. kilometers miles centimeters feet
What is centimeters?
100
The formula used to calculate an object's speed.
What is distance divided by time?
100
The unit of time that would be best to measure a Bayless Jr. High student's mile by.
What are minutes?
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
The distance Ajdin will have gone if he drives 50 mi/hr for 2 hr.
What is 100 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 line on a distance versus time graph when an object's distance is not changing, but time is still passing.
What is a horizontal line?
200
Motion of a car if the line on the distance-time graph is a straight line going up diagonally?
What is moving at constant speed away from where it started?
300
The rate at which an object is moving at a given time.
What is instantaneous speed?
300
A stationary object that is used to determine the motion of another object.
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
How long will it take Marissa to travel 100 miles if she is running at a rate of 25 mi/hr?
What is four hours?
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 towards where it came from?
400
An increase in the rate of an object's speed.
What is acceleration?
400
The total distance Selav will have driven if she drives 70 mi/hr for .5 hrs and 60 mi/hr for 4 hrs.
What is 275 miles?
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
How long will it take Erik to walk 4 miles if he walks at a rate of 1 mi/hr?
What is four hours?
400
Motion of a car if the line on a distance-time graph is curving upward.
What is speeding accelerating?
500
The rate at which an object's distance from another, usually stationary, object changes.
What is motion?
500
The total distance Crystal will have traveled if she walks 1 mile to the store and then decides to walk 2 miles to get a slice of pizza and then returns home.
What is six miles?
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
How long will it take Anupam to ride his bike 120 miles if he rides at a rate 20 mi/hr?
What is six hours?
500
Motion of a car if the line on a velocity-time graph is becoming less steep and more horizontal.
What is slowing down?
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