A place or object use for comparison to determine if something is in motion.
What is a reference point?
100
______ centimeters are in a meter.
What is 100 centimeters?
100
If an object changes position in relation to another object, it is known to be in ___________.
What is motion?
100
Hurricane Sandy was an example of __________.
What is velocity?
100
The rate at which velocity changes.
What is acceleration?
200
The distance the object moves per unit of time.
What is speed?
200
________ = distance / time.
What is speed?
200
The length of the bath between two points.
What is distance?
200
Knowing both the speed and direction of an object.
What is velocity?
200
You accelerate when you coast down a hill on your bike. This is __________ __________ type of acceleration.
What is changing speed?
300
Meters, centimeters, millimeters are all apart of this system.
What is the International System of Units.
300
______ millimeters are in 90 centimeters.
What is 900 millimeters.
300
Planets rotate and spin around this stationary star in the universe.
What is the sun?
300
When Ms. Young goes to visit her brother at Southern Illinois University, she travels from Chicago to Carbondale at an average speed of 65 km/hr. State the velocity.
What is 65 km/hr south?
300
The seats on a Ferris wheel accelerate because they move in a circle. This is __________ __________ type of acceleration.
What is changing direction?
400
The amount of something that occurs or changes in one unit of time.
What is a rate?
400
Find the total distance:
3 km, 50 km, 12 km
Find the total time:
1 hr, 3 hr, 1 hr
What is total distance = 65 km & total time = 5 hr?
400
This is a universal reference point used by people across the globe, especially sailors, when out to sea.
What is the North Star.
400
___________ is the steepness of a line on a graph and also tells you how fast a variable changes in relation to the other variable on a graph.
What is slope?
400
Fill in the blank.
acceleration = ____________ - initial speed / time
What is final speed?
500
The speed at which an object is moving at a given instant in time.
What is instantaneous speed?
500
_________ = total distance / total time.
What is average speed?
500
_________ is represented on the x-axis and ____________ is represented on the y-axis to display motion in a graph.
What is time = x axis & distance = y axis.
500
_________ = rise / run
_________ = the x axis
_________ = the y axis
What is slope, run, & rise.
500
True or False.
The SI units for acceleration are m/hr2 (squared).