Position and Motion

True or False: When you describe a position, you must only specify a distance.

• true

• false

True or False: Directing someone to walk north and west is describing a position in two dimensions?

• true

• false

True or False: Whether motion occurs depends on the reference point you use.

• true

• false

True or False: Displacement does not require movement.

• true

• false

Name the term for the starting point describing the location of an object.

• reference point

• displacement

• positive direction

Name the term for the reference direction.

• positive direction

• negative direction

Name the term for the direction opposite the reference direction.

• negative direction

• postive direction.

What is an example of reference direction.

• northwest

• in front of the house

• beside the toad

How do you know motion has occurred?

• the position of the object has changed

• the reference point has changed

• the object being described has changed

What is the process of changing position?

• motion

• position

• distance

• displacement