Vocab Quiz #7: Forces and Motion 1

The rate at which velocity changes; how fast an object speeds up.

• Balanced Forces

• Force

• Momentum

• Acceleration

Equal forces acting on an object in opposite directions.

• Balanced Force

• Unbalanced Force

• Motion

• Gravity

A push or pull exerted on an object.

• Motion

• Mass

• Force

• Momentum

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The resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another.

• Speed

• Acceleration

• Friction

• Momentum

A force that pulls objects toward each other due to their masses.

• Friction

• Inertia

• Gravity

• Motion

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

• Friction

• Inertia

• Gravity

• Force

A measure of the amount of matter in an object.

• Gravity

• Mass

• Friction

• Inertia

The force or speed with which something moves.

• Speed

• Velocity

• Inertia

• Momentum

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An object's change in position over time.

• Velocity

• Speed

• Motion

• Momentum

An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

• Newton's First Law of Motion

• Newton's Second Law of Motion

• Newton's Third Law of Motion

• Newton's Law of Gravity