Vocab 1
This describe how fast or slow something moves over time.
What is speed?
This is the term describing the length of the route between two points.
What is distance?
This is the formula used to calculate the average speed of an object.
What is Speed = distance/time?
What is the speed of a bus that travels 250 km in 2 hours?
What is 125 km/hr?
A train goes 30 km in 5 minutes. What is its speed?
What is 6km/min?
This term refers to an object's location.
What is position?
An object’s location is also called this
What is its position?
This is the formula for finding time when provided its speed and the distance it traveled.
Time = Distance/Speed
A marble travels 10 feet in 5 seconds. What is its speed?
What is 2 feet/second?
An object travels 2 km east, then 1.5 km north. What is the total distance it traveled?
What is 3.5 km?
The formula for this is to divide total distance by total time
What is speed?
These are the four main points of a compass: north, south, east, and west.
What are Cardinal Directions?
This is the formula used to find distance when provided the speed of an object and the it took to reach its destination.
What is Distance = Speed x Time?
How much time did it take an object to travel 40 meters if its speed was 5 meters per second?
What is 8 seconds?
A vector pointing right on a map typically means that the object is travelling in this direction.
What is east?
This term describes a change in position.
What is motion?
This term describes the shortest length of the route between two points.
What is displacement?
Marie ran around a 400 meter track 4 times. What is her distance and displacement?
Distance = 1600 m
Displacement = 0
How far will you go in 3 hours when traveling at 60km/hr?
What is 180 km?
Tony cycles for 3 hours at a speed on 40km/hr. He travels 14 miles north, then turns around and travels 7 miles south. What is his displacement?
What is 7 miles north?
This term refers to a circumstance in which something that is not moving with respect to an observer that can be used to detect motion.
What is frame of reference?
A vector arrow is used to depict which two factors of an object's path?
What is how far it traveled and in what direction?
A baseball was pitched at 8m/s. It look 2 seconds to hit the catcher's glove. How far did it travel?
What is 16m?
An object that traveled at 55 mph took 60 minutes to get there. What was the total distance it traveled?
What is 55 miles?
A soccer player sprints back and forth in the same direction 4 times, travelling 20 meters each time. What is their distance AND displacement?
Distance = 80 m
Displacement = 0