Motion Vocabulary
Distance and Displacement
Speed and Velocity
Acceleration
Interpreting Graphs
100
The measure of how fast something travels
speed
100
Distance and displacement is most often measured in
meters
100
What is a jogger's average speed if she jogs 4 kilometers in 32 minutes?
0.125 km/min
100
Acceleration is described as changes in ________.
speed
100
Motion of a car if the line on the distance-time graph is horizontal.
What is not moving?
200
The speed at which an object is traveling and the direction it is traveling.
velocity
200
Nikki's total distance if he drives 4 miles east from his house to pick up his friend Dave, and then drive 2 more miles east to school.
6 miles
200
The a train car traveled 200 meters in 25 seconds.
8 m/s
200
The acceleration of a bus moving at a constant speed of 50 miles per hour.
0
200
Motion of a car if the line on the distance-time graph is a straight line going up.
What is moving at constant speed?
300
The difference between the starting and ending point
displacement
300
On his fishing trip Justin takes the boat 12 km south. The fish aren’t biting so he continues 4 km south. What distance did he cover? What was his displacement?
16 km
300
The faster runner if Bo runs 4 miles in 1 hour, and Mo runs 2 miles in 20 minutes.
Mo
300
The formula for calculating acceleration.
What is the change in velocity divided by the total time?
300
Motion of a car if the line on a distance-time graph is a straight line going down.
What is moving at constant speed?
400
The total amount traveled
distance
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.
2 blocks
400
How far does a train travel in 3 hours if if travels at a speed of 64 mi/hr
192 miles
400
The acceleration of a car traveling at 10 meters per second that takes 20 seconds to stop.
0.5 m/s2
400
Motion of a car if the line on a distance-time graph is curving upward.
What is speeding up?
500
The rate at which velocity changes.
acceleration
500
What is 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.
0 miles
500
How long would it take for a person to run 5 miles if they run at a rate of 7 mi/hr
0.71 hours
500
The acceleration of a race car that goes from a pace car speed of 400000 kilometers per second to full speed of 900000 kilometers per second in 10 seconds.
50000 km/s2
500
Motion of a car if the line on a velocity-time graph is a straight line down.
What is slowing down?