Magnets Vocabulary

Cause objects to be pulled closer

• repel

• friction

• gravity

• attract

Cause objects to move away

• attract

• gravity

• invisible

• repel

An invisible force around the magnet

• invisible

• magnet

• gravity

• magnetic field

A push or pull that causes an object to move, stop, or change direction

• force

• friction

• invisible

• direction

The path of an object

• direction

• force

• strength

• magnetic force

A force that resists the motion of 2 surfaces sliding across one another

• gravity

• direction

• friction

• repel

The force that causes objects with mass to attract each other

• attract

• repel

• gravity

• magnet

How strong something is

• strength

• magnetic force

• magnet

• invisible

Can not be seen

• stength

• invisible

• attract

• magnetic force

A piece of metal that attracts objects made of iron

• attract

• force

• magnet

• strength