Important Terms
Any push or pull.
Force
This Greek science once said that a force is needed to keep an object in motion.
How a quantity is measured.
Unit
Isaac Newton realized that all objects in the universe are doing one of what 2 things.
Motion or rest
Third planet from the sun.
Earth
Mass
This person was one of the first scientists in Europe to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system.
Copernicus
The unit kilogram (kg) is a unit for what quantity?
Mass
What part of Newton’s first law of refers to the idea of constant velocity?
"Straight line at a constant speed"
Parts of the state of Hawai`i have been getting a lot of this kind of damage from weather.
How much an object wants to stay at rest or in motion.
Inertia.
This individual made the accepted geocentric model of the universe in the western world for almost 14 centuries.
Ptolemy
Units for force.
lbs or Newtons
According to Newton's first law of motion, what causes objects to change their state of motion or rest?
An outside force
This sea creature's body is made of over 90% water.
Jellyfish
What is weight.
The first person to accurately describe universally (everywhere) how objects move.
Newton
Units for weight
pounds or Newtons
Newton’s 1st law mentions an “outside force.” Identify one thing that an “outside force” would cause an object to do.
Speed up, slow down, or turn
You know that something is a fruit if it has this.
Seeds
The amount of much space something takes up.
Volume
This person used to the telescope to prove that the heliocentric model was correct.
Galileo
Units for inertia
None, inertia is not a quantity.
Inertia
What season is Autearoa (New Zealand) experiencing now?
Fall