Unit Vocabulary
Calculating Speed & Velocity
Graphs
Distance vs Displacement
Term 1 Vocab
100
The distance an object has traveled per unit of time.
What is speed?
100
The speed of a car that has traveled 20 meters in 10 seconds.
What is 2 m/s?
100
The object has stopped at this interval.
What is B?
100
The total distance traveled walking 18 feet across a room.
What is 18 feet?
100
a type of change in which a new substance is made from one or more previous substances.
What is a chemical change?
200
The distance an object traveled per unit of time - in a given direction.
What is Velocity?
200
The speed of a runner who has traveled 5 meters in 30 seconds.
What is 0.17 m/s?
200
Use this graph to find the average speed. 
What is 5 m/s?
200
The displacement (in meters) of a student who walks from the podium around the room and back to the podium.
What is 0 meters?
200
a pure substance that is made up of two or more different elements in a specific ratio
What is a Compound?
300
The total distance an object travels divided by the total time
What is Average Speed?
300
The average speed of the runners.
What is 3.86 Km/min?
300
The object is moving fastest within this time interval.
What is 10-15 seconds?
300
The distance of a student who walks 18 feet across the room and 18 feet back.
What is 36 feet?
300
a material which consists of multiple different substances that are not evenly distributed.
What is a heterogeneous mixture?
400
How far an object has traveled - total trip
What is distance?
400
A person drives 80 kilometers (km) North in 2 hours, then 100 km West in 4 hours , and finally 70 km in 1 hour. Calculate the velocity for the second part of the trip.
What is 25 km/hr West?
400
The slope of a faster moving object will be ___________ than a slower moving object.
Higher
400
The distance of a runner who runs 4 laps around a 400 meter track.
What is 1600 meters?
400
the molecular attraction exerted between the surfaces of bodies in contact. (example - tape on paper)
What is adhesion?
500
How far an object is from where it traveled - straightest line from where it ended to where it started.
What is displacement?
500
A college football team in Houston travels to Austin to play a game. The trip from Houston to Austin is approximately 165 miles northwest. The velocity if the trip takes about 2.5 hours on a school bus.
What is 66 mph northwest?
500
On a Distance/Time graph, a straight line means the object has stopped, but on a Speed/Time graph a straight line means this.
What is constant speed? What is a speed that does not change?
500
The displacement of a runner who runs 4 laps around a 400 meter track.
What is 0 meters
500
a solid substance that is formed during a chemical change and occurs after mixing liquids
What is a precipitate