Forces & Motion Vocabulary
The state in which one object’s distance from another is changing.
What is Motion?
Law of inertia: an object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion.
What is Newton’s first law?
Applied when objects touch.
What is a Contact force?
A unit of measure that equals the force required to accelerate 1 kilogram of mass at 1 meter per second per second.
What is a Newton?
The tendency of an object to resist a change of motion.
What is Inertia?
The distance an object travels per unit of time.
What is Speed?
When a force acts (pushes or pulls) on an object, it changes the object’s speed or direction.
What is Newton’s second law?
The force that two surfaces exert on each other when they rub against each other.
What is Friction?
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Who is Ms. Cruse?
This snack food is made from potatoes and often comes in flavors like barbecue and sour cream & onion.
What are potato chips?
This fast-food chain is known for its golden arches.
What is McDonalds?
This popular video game features building, mining, and surviving in a blocky world.
What is Minecraft?
The attractive force between objects.
What is Gravity?
This sport is known as “the beautiful game” worldwide.
What is soccer?
The ratio of the vertical change to the horizontal change.
What is Slope?
A place or object used for comparison to determine whether an object is in motion.
What is a Reference point?
This law explains why seatbelts are important when a car suddenly stops.
What is Newton’s first law?
This animal is known as the “king of the jungle.”
What is a lion?
This Disney character has a pet tiger named Rajah.
Who is Jasmine?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
Speed in a given direction.
What is Velocity?
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton’s third law?
The overall force on an object when all the individual forces acting on it are added together.
What is Net Force?
A measure of the force of gravity acting on an object.
What is Weight?
The rate at which velocity changes.
What is Acceleration?