Motion Vocabulary
Distance and Displacement
Speed and Velocity
Position vs Time Graphs
Velocity Vs Time Graphs
100
The ratio of the distance an object moves to the amount of time needed to travel the distance.
What is speed?
100
Of the following, the one that would be most practical for measuring the length of your finger. kilometers miles centimeters feet
What is centimeters?
100
The speed of a train car if its distance-time graph indicates that it traveled 200 meters in 25 seconds.
What is 8 meters per second?
100
Maria has stopped on her way to work.
What is from 25-30 minutes.
100
The velocity of the object.
What is speeding up?
200
The speed at which an object is traveling and the direction it is traveling.
What is velocity?
200
Nikki's total displacement if he drives 4 miles east from his house to pick up his friend Dave, and then drive 2 more miles east to school.
What is 6 miles?
200
The faster runner if Bo runs 4 miles in 1 hour, and Mo runs 2 miles in 20 minutes.
Who is Mo?
200
The motion of object D.
What is a fast constant speed?
200
Which segements show constant velocity?
What is B, D and F?
300
The rate at which an object is moving at a given time.
What is instantaneous speed?
300
A system of objects that are not moving with respect to one another.
What is a frame of reference/perspective?
300
A train's average speed if it travels 190 kilometers in 3 hours, and then 120 kilometers in 2 hours.
What is 62 kilometers per hour?
300
The slope of a position vs. time graph.
What is the change in velocity?
300
The slope of a velocity vs. time graph .
What is acceleration?
400
the change in an object's position, defined as a vector quantity with both magnitude (how far the object moved) and direction, from its initial position to its final position
What is displacement?
400
Monique's total displacement if she walks 2 blocks east to her friend Carla's house, then 4 blocks west (past her own house) to her friend Kate's house.
What is -2 blocks.
400
A jogger's average speed if she jogs 4 kilometers in 32 minutes, then 2 kilometers in 22 minutes, and finally 1 kilometer in 16 minutes.
What is 0.1 kilometers per minute?
400
Negative velocity of an object.
What is moving backwards?
400
The
The displacement traveld at section B.
What is 150M.
500
The rate at which velocity changes.
What is acceleration?
500
Johnny's total displacement if he walks 2 miles to the school, and then takes the short cut back home that is only 1 mile.
What is zero?
500
This is measured by your car's speedometer.
What is instantaneous speed?
500
Moving back.
What is A
500
Describe the velocityof the object.
What is negative velocity to the left that is speeding up.