Speed
Distance/Time Graphs
Speed/Time Graphs
Vocabulary
Random Science Facts
100

The calculation for speed. 

What is Distance / Time

100

When a car is not moving and its graph has a horizontal/flat line. 

What is Rest or Zero? 

100

The horizontal line tells us this about the object's motion

What is zero acceleration? 

100

___________ is how far an object moves in total. 

___________ is how far an object is from its starting point. 

Distance and Displacement

100

The largest desert in the world. 

What is the Antarctic?

200

The speed of an object if the distance is 70 meters and the time is 10 seconds including units. 

What is 7 m/s?

200

A graph with a positive and straight line represents the following kind of speed. Accelerating, Constant, Decelerating, Rest

What is Constant?

200

If a speed time graph has a flat line it tells us what two things about the objects motion? 

What is the speed is completely constant or there is no speed/motion? 

200

Something that has speed with a specific direction. 

What is velocity. 
200

The only continent that is located in all four hemispheres. 

What is Africa? 

300

The playground is 80 meters away and you get there 40 seconds after leaving class. This will be your average speed. 

What is 2 m/s

300

What does the steepness (slope) of the line tell us about the object's motion? "The steeper the line the..."

What is the steeper the line, the faster the object is moving?

300

What the slope of a speed-time graph tells us. 

What is acceleration?

300

What a cops speed gun would read. 

What is instant or instantaneous speed? 

300

The number of dimensions that the world around us is composed of. Bonus points for naming them all. 

What is 4? Length, Width, Depth, and Time

400

It takes me 6 hours to drive to Nashville, TN. My route is 300 miles long. This is my average speed in mph. 

What is 50 miles per hour

400

Given that the car goes from only 10m/s and speeds up to 20m/s over the course of 5 seconds, it has the following acceleration? 

What is 2m/s^2

400

What the slope tells us about the object's motion.

What is deceleration?

400

Something that has both a magnitude and a direction to it. 

What is a vector? 

400
In empty space there is something that cannot exist as it needs a medium to travel through. 

What is sound? 

500

How far a dog can walk if its speed is 30 m/s and it travels for 700 seconds. 

What is 21,000 meters? 

500
A curved upward line on a distance time graph tells us the following about the acceleration? 

What is that the object is positively accelerating or speeding up?

500

What the steepness (slope) of a line indicate. "The steeper the line, the..."

What is the steeper the line, the faster the acceleration?

500

The measurement of the TOTAL distance and object travels over the TOTAL time it takes to travel that distance

What is average speed?

500

How many known moons does Jupiter have? 

115