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Newton's Laws
Describing and Measuring Motion
Acceleration
Friction and Gravity
Slow Motion on Planet Earth
100
A rocket taking off is an example of which of Newton's Laws?
What is Newton's third law of motion?
100
A common unit used to measure length/distance.
What is a meter?
100
The rate at which velocity changes is _____________.
What is acceleration?
100
What are the four kinds of friction?
What are static, sliding, rolling, and fluid friction?
100
Earth's outer layer is made up of pieces that fit together like the pieces of a puzzle.
What plates/tectonic plates?
200
A golf ball being hit is an example of which of Newton's Laws?
What is Newton's first law of motion?
200
An object or place that you can use to tell if an object is in motion.
What is a reference point?
200
This type of graph can be used to show acceleration.
What is a line graph?
200
Friction acts in the opposite direction of ______________.
What is motion?
200
This theory says that Earth's plates move slowly.
What is the Theory of Plate Tectonics?
300
Forces always occur in equal and opposite pairs.
What is Newton's third law of motion?
300
It tells how far something moves in a certain amount of time.
What is speed?
300
To find acceleration, you need to know the starting speed, the ending speed, and the ____________.
What is time?
300
A force that pulls objects toward Earth.
What is gravity?
300
Earth's plates move in different ________________.
What is directions?
400
An object will accelerate in the direction of a force acting on it.
What is Newton's second law of motion?
400
_______________ is speed in a given direction.
What is velocity?
400
Acceleration is the rate at which __________ changes.
What is velocity?
400
A force that pushes upward on falling objects.
What is air resistance?
400
This causes the movement of the Earth's plates.
What is soft, moving rock (the Mantle)?
500
Unless otherwise acted upon, an object in motion stays in motion; an object at rest stays at rest.
What is Newton's first law of motion?
500
Velocity tells speed and ______________.
What is direction?
500
The change in speed per unit time can be calculated to determine the acceleration of an object moving in a _____________ __________.
What is straight line?
500
The greatest velocity an object reaches as it falls to Earth is its ____________ ____________.
What is terminal velocity?
500
This formula is used to find the distance a tectonic plate moves in a certain number of years.
What is Distance = Speed x Time?