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Force
Motion
Energy
Speed
Anything
100
Force is a _____ or _____.
What is push or pull?
100
Sliding down a slide is this type of motion.
What is straight line motion?
100
Name the type of energy that means work has been done. It's also called the energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
100
Name the two things you need to know to figure out an object's speed.
What are distance and time?
100
What type of scale measures force in Newtons?
What is a spring scale?
200
Force is measured in this unit, named after a famous mathematician.
What is a Newton?
200
Swinging on a swing is this type of motion.
What is back and forth motion (or zigzag motion)?
200
Name the type of energy that is stored.
What is potential energy?
200
Describe how to calculate speed.
What is divide distance by time?
200
Name the force that makes your weight different on Earth and in outer space.
What is gravity?
300
If two people are applying force to the same object but in opposite directions, this is called _________ force.
What is balanced force?
300
Riding on a merry-go-round is this type of motion.
What is curved motion?
300
Give an example of how energy can change in the same object.
What is any object that moves and stops for a moment before moving again, such as a yo-yo, swing, or roller coaster?
300
Describe how you increased the speed of the marble in our experiment.
What is raise the height of the ruler/ramp?
300
Of a ping-pong ball, a golf ball, and a soccer ball, the object that requires the LEAST amount of force to move.
What is a ping-pong ball?
400
Objects with _____ mass require more force to move.
What is more?
400
The number of Newton's Laws of Motion.
What is 3?
400
The type of energy a roller coaster has at the top of a hill.
What is potential energy?
400
The two forces that slow the speed of a moving object.
What are gravity and friction?
400
Explain why more force is needed to slide a hockey puck 10cm across a table than is needed to slide a button 10 cm across the same table.
What is the hockey puck has more mass?
500
This type of force keeps water in a bucket when it's swung around.
What is centripetal force?
500
Name one of Newton's Laws of Motion. It MUST be a complete answer!
What is 1. an object at rest stays at rest unless a force acts upon it, OR 2. a force acting on an object, will change it's speed or direction or both, OR 3. for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
500
The type of energy a roller coaster has going DOWN the hill.
What is kinetic energy?
500
The speed of an object traveling 180cm in 2 seconds.
What is 90cm/second?
500
Define mass.
What is the amount of matter an object has, or the amount of space an object takes up?