Force + Motion Vocabulary Review

What is distance?

• a change in an object's position

• a tool used for measuring length or distance

• the length of a line between two points

• the path that a moving object follows

What is motion?

• a change in an object's position

• a measure of how far an object moves in a certain amount of time

• the information gathered with the senses

• pieces of information

What is a meterstick?

• the vertical line at the side of a graph; on a distance-time graph, the line that represents distance

• a graph that shows data as a line on a grid

• a chart made up of rows and columns, used to organize data

• a tool used for measuring length or distance

What is direction?

• the path that a moving object follows

• the horizontal line at the bottom of a graph; on a distance-time graph, the line that represents time

• a line graph that shows an object's motion, with time on the x-axis and distance on the y-axis

• a push or pull

What is speed?

• the amount of matter that makes up an object

• a measure of how far an object moves in a certain amount of time

• anything that has mass and takes up space

• a tool used to measure weight and force

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

What is an observation?

• a force that pulls objects toward each other

• a force that acts between surfaces that touch each other

• information gathered with the senses

• the force of friction that acts between a moving object and air particles

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What is data?

• the length of a line between two points

• a change in an object's position

• pieces of information

• a tool used for measuring length or distance

What is a data table?

• a measure of how far an object moves in a certain amount of time

• information gathered with the senses

• a chart made up of rows and columns, used to organize data

• the path that a moving object follows

What is a line graph?

• a graph that shows data as a line on a grid

• pieces of information

• a chart made up of rows and columns, used to organize data

• the vertical line at the side of a graph; on a distance-time graph, the line that represents distance

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

What is the y-axis?

• the horizontal line at the bottom of the graph; on a distance-time graph, the line that represents time

• a line graph that shows an object's motion, with time on the x-axis and distance on the y-axis

• a push or pull

• the vertical line at the side of a graph; on a distance-time graph, the line that represents distance

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1