Forces and Motion Jeopardy!

Forces

100

The definition of force

What is a push or pull?

200

The force that makes objects fall back down to Earth

What is gravitational?

300

The physicist who came up with gravitational theory and the laws of motion

Who is Isaac Newton?

400

Name a type of force (except for gravitational, please don't say gravitational)

What is applied, magnetic, normal, spring, tension, centripetal, electrical force?

500

The greater the distance between two objects, the ______ the gravitational force between the objects

What is weaker?

Motion

100

(of a quantity) only having magnitude, not direction

What is scalar quantity?

200

Speed is the measurement of what over time?

What is distance?

300

Distance is a scalar quantity, but displacement is a

What is a vector quantity?

400

Acceleration is the measurement of what over time?

What is velocity?

500

True or false: If an object is going in circles at the same speed, it is not accelerating.

What is false? (Acceleration is a change in velocity, and velocity is a vector quantity that includes direction!!)

Forces... AND motion??

100

True or false: Objects with different masses fall at the same speed and acceleration 

What is true?

200

Who did the famous Tower of Pisa experiment with falling objects?

Who is Galileo Galilei?

300

The moon causes this to occur in the Earth's oceans

What are tides?

400

On Earth, why doesn't a paper and a crumpled ball of paper fall at the same speed?

What is air resistance?

500

What is the acceleration due to gravity on Earth (give me an approximate number)

What is 9.8 m/s^2?