Types of Forces
Describing Motion
Force Basics
100

This type of force requires objects to touch each other

What is a contact force?

100

A force that moves something away from you.

What is a push?

100

A simple word that means a push or a pull.

What is a force?

200

This type of force can act even when objects are not touching.

What is a non-contact force?

200

A force that brings something closer to you.

What is a pull?

200

This tells how strong a force is.

What is strength?

300

This force pulls objects towards Earth.

What is gravity?

300

When forces are equal and opposite, this is the result.

What is a balanced force?

300

This word means how much matter or stuff is within an object.

What is mass?

400

This force slows things down when they rub together.

What is friction?

400

When one force is stronger than another, this happens.

What is a unbalanced force?

400

These three scientific laws explain how things move.

What is Newton's Laws of Motion?

500

This invisible force can attract or repel certain metals.

What is magnetism?

500

This word describes which way an object is moving.

What is direction?

500

This formula explains Newton's Second Law of Motion

What is Force = Mass x Acceleration?