Motion and Forces Vocabulary

The force against an object as it moves through the air...

• Mass

• Gravity

• Air Resistance

• Speed

The force that attracts two physical bodies of mass toward

each other...

• Mass

• Gravity

• Motion

• Speed

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Science concerned with nature and the properties of

energy and matter...

• Gravity

• Motion

• Physics

• Science

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-2

The amount of matter in an object...

• Mass

• Speed

• Motion

• Gravity

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

Factors that can vary, or change, in a situation or

experiment...

• Air Resistance

• Mass

• Gravity

• Variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

The variable that remains constant, or unchanged, in an

experiment; the test variable can then be compared to

the control variable...

• Variable

• Control Variable

• Independent Variable

• Dependent Variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

A reference point, such as a starting line or the ground,

relative to which motion is measured...

• Reference Frame

• Picture Frame

• Motion

• Minions

The rate at which something can move or operate...

• Speed

• Gravity

• Motion

• Air Resistance

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

A prediction to a testable question, based on

observations...

• Gravity

• Physics

• Science

• Hypothesis

A variable in a function that determines the values of

another variable (dependent). {the one you can change}

• Dependent Variable

• Independent Variable

• Control Variable

• Variable

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2