Forces and Motion
In what direction will the box move?
The box will move to the right.
The energy a car driving down the road has.
What is kinetic energy?
Gravity pulls all things down to the _______ of the __________.
What is the center of the earth?
What are north and south poles.
What are the two types of electric charges? (Besides a neutral charge).
Positive charge and negative charge.
When an object is not changing its speed or direction, the forces acting on it are ________.
What is balanced?
The energy you have sitting on your stools.
What is gravitational potential energy?
Gravity is more attracted to objects with a(n) ________ mass.
What is a larger mass?
___________ poles attract each other.
What is opposite?
Electric charge comes from atoms sharing ________.
What are electrons?
When an object is speeding up, slowing down, or turning, the forces acting on it are _________.
What is unbalanced?
The energy Mrs. Loyd's coffee has.
What is chemical potential energy?
The force of gravity is ____________ as objects move further away from each other.
What is weaker?
The interaction between the north poles of two magnets.
What is repelling?
A negative charge and a positive charge will ___________ each other.
What is attract?
What is the net force for this game of tug-of-war and in what direction will the rope go?
15N to the left.
The energy a rubber band has when it holds a bunch of asparagus together.
What is elastic potential energy?
Any object with a _________ has a gravitational force field around it.
What is mass?
The closer a magnetic material gets to the force field of a magnet, the __________ the force is.
What is stronger?
The closer two objects with a charge are to each other, the _________ the force.
The tendency for an object to resist a change in motion.
What is inertia?
The energy a baseball/softball has as it is thrown from the pitcher to the catcher.
(It is both above the ground and moving).
What is mechanical potential energy?
An object with a large enough mass can hold other objects in a circular path around it, called a(n) _________, using it's graviational field.
What is an orbit?
What are iron, nickel, and cobalt?
An electric current can be run through a coil of copper wire and create a magnetic field. This is called a(n) _______________.
What is an electromagnet?