Show:
Vocabulary
Math Formulas
Metric Conversions
Reference Points
Reading Motion graphs
100
A place or object used for comparison to determine if something is in motion.
What is reference point?
100
How you calculate the speed of an object.
What is distance divided by time?
100
1 m = ? mm
What is 1,000?
100
If you are sitting in a car while your mom is driving you to school, as you wave to your friend waiting at the bus stop, which of the following is not moving in respect to you? your friend, the car, the school, your house?
What is your car?
100
True or False: On a distance-verses-time graph, a speed of zero would appear as a horizontal line.
What is true?
200
A system of measurement that scientists use which describes the length of the path between two points.
What is International System of Units Distance (SI)?
200
The math formula for finding the average speed of an object.
What is total distance divided by total time.
200
1 m = ? cm
What is 100?
200
Why should you not use a moving object as a reference point?
What is it would be difficult to determine the direction of the motion?
200
True or False: A distance-verses-time graph will never show a horizontal line.
What is false? (vertical)
300
When position changes relative to another object.
What is motion?
300
The math formula to find the slope of a line on a graph.
What is divide the rise by the run?
300
1km= ?m
What is 1,000?
300
What celestial object would be best to use as a reference point to describe the motion of the planets in our solar system?
What is the sun?
300
True or False: On a distance-verses-time graph, a straight line indicates that an object's speed is zero.
What is False? (constant)
400
The speed at which an object is moving at a certain time.
What is instantaneous speed?
400
If a person ran a 1,000 m race in 2.5 minutes, what is the person's average speed?
What is 400 m/min.
400
1 cm = ? mm
What is 10?
400
If you are sitting in a stationary school bus, in front of the school, what would be the best reference point to use to determine if the bus is starting to move? the school, the bus parked next to you, a car waiting to pick up another student, a student walking to that car.
What is the school?
400
To describe an objects motion you need to know both it's speed and __________.
What is direction?
500
Speed in a given direction.
What is velocity?
500
If you go on a trip and travel 200 km in the first 2 hours, stop for lunch, and travel only 25 km during the next 1 hour. What is your average speed?
What is 75 km/hr?
500
1 h (hectometer) = ? m
What is 100?
500
If a crow flying overhead drops an object to the ground, from the crow's perspective is the object falling in a curved or straight line to the ground?
What is a straight line?
500
On a distance-verses-time graph, time is shown on the ________ axis.
What is x?