Motion
Speed
Velocity
Review 2
100
When an object's distance from another object is changing, that object is considered to be in...
What is motion?
100
This is the formula for speed.
What is distance/time?
100
Velocity refers to both speed and this.
What is direction?
100
This is the word for an educated guess.
What is hypothesis?
200
This variable is given in units of distance/time.
What is speed?
200
This is the speed of an airplane that moves 50 meters in 1 second stated in meters per second.
What is 50 m/s?
200

Velocity is given in these units.

What are displacement per time (m/s)?

200
A vector has both the magnitude and...
What is direction?
300
This is what you need to tell if motion is occurring.
What is a reference point?
300
A bamboo plant grows 15 cm in 4 hours. What is the average speed of growth?
3.75 cm/h
300
If Jermaine walked 5 ft. North, then walked 5 ft. south and it took him 10 seconds, what is Jermaine's average velocity?
0
300
The final step of the scientific method.
What is conclusion?
400
If an object is moving at a constant speed, what is not changing?
What is speed or velocity?
400
If the total distance and the total time of a trip is known, this can be calculated.
What is average speed?
400
If a plane travels 1000 km in 2hrs from Indianapolis to Orlando, FL, this is its' velocity.
What is 500 km/hr south?
400
As an object falls towards the earth, its' speed does this.
What is increase?
500
This is the distance a horse on a merry-go-round would travel if the distance between the horse and the center axis was 3 meters.
What is 18.84 m?
500
You are riding on an escalator. This is a way you can tell that you are moving.
What is a change in position relative to a reference point?
500
This is an example of a situation in which velocity is more beneficial to know then only speed.
What is during a storm, crossing the street, etc.?
500
On a graph of velocity, the x-axis typically refers to this.
What is time?
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