Force & Motion Vocabulary Quiz

Measure of the inertia of an object; depends on the amount of matter the object contains

• Mass

• Gravity

• Inertia

• Force

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

Force that acts between any two masses

• Displacement

• Gravity

• Mass

• Inertia

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

Friction force that acts to prevent objects that are touching from sliding past one another

• Force

• Static Friction

• Inertia

• Sliding Friction

Line graph used to show the speed of a moving object

• Distance-Time Graph

• Line Graph

• Velocity

• Displacement

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

The tendency of an object to resist a change in its motion

• Inertia

• Gravity

• Displacement

• Force

A group of reference objects whose placement can be compared to determine motion

• Displacement

• Force

• Speed

• Frame of Reference

A force that opposes the motion of objects as they slide past one another

• Fluid Friction

• Static Friction

• Reaction Force

• Sliding Friction

Occurs when the net force between two objects is zero and there is no change in their motion

• Sliding Friction

• Balanced Forces

• Inertia

• Net Force

A measure of how long it takes an object to get from one place to another

• Speed

• Mass

• Force

• Inertia

Friction force that acts on a rolling object and the surface on which it is rolling

• Rolling Friction

• Static Friction

• Static Friction

• Gravity