OFF TO THE RACES
TUG OF WAR
WHAT'S THAT WORD?
Don't Be Pushy
This and That
100
You traveled 150 miles in 5 hours. Calculate your speed.
What is 30 mph?
100
A push or pull.
What is force?
100
Motion based on a person's frame of reference.
What is: relative motion
100
Suppose you push on a bookshelf from one side and your friend pushes on the other side towards you with more force than you. What direction will it move?
What is: towards you
100
A force that keeps two objects that are touching each other from sliding past each other easily?
What is:Friction?
200
If a bus travels 222 miles in 3 hours and a car travels 250 miles in 5 hours, which one has the faster speed?
What is a bus?
200
What must you do to cause an object to move?
What is: Use a force?
200
Any change in speed or direction of an object's motion.
What is: acceleration
200
Say you want to re-arrange the furniture in your bedroom. If three people are in the room and it takes 36 Newtons of force to pull the bed, how many Newtons of force is that per person?
What is:12 Newtons
200
The measure of the force of gravity on an object.
What is: weight?
300
Two measurements that are needed to calculate speed.
What is distance and time?
300
What force is measured in.
What is: Newtons
300
All the things around you that you use to describe motion.
What is: Frame of reference?
300
This tool measures force.
What is:spring scale?
300
The direction of the force of friction on a book sliding to the right on a table is...
What is: to the left?
400
Calculate the speed of a car traveling 170 km in 2 hours.
What is 85 km/hr
400
The natural force that pulls all objects towards each other.
What is: gravity
400
The natural force that pulls all objects towards each other.
What is:Gravity?
400
What happens to an object when the forces acting on it are balanced.
What is: It does not move?
400
The greater the distance between objects, the stronger/weaker the pull of gravity is.
What is:weaker?
500
What is the speed of a marathon runner who runs the marathon in 2 hours. (A marathon is 26.2 miles)
What is 13.1 mph
500
Name an item that takes about 1 Newton of force to lift.
What is: an apple, jenga block, deck of cards
500
A certain place.
What is:position?
500
Two teams are playing Tug of War. If the team on the left side (A) is winning, what does that tell you about the force in relation to the team on the right side(B)
What is: Team A is pulling with more force or team B is pulling with less force?
500
What does the stretch of the spring scale measure? (Don't say Newtons)
What is: the amount of force pulling on it?