Unit 4 Forces Vocabulary Practice

What is the tendency of an object to keep doing what it's doing (staying still or moving) unless something makes it change?

• Mass

• Force

• Inertia

• Friction

How is the amount of matter in an object, without considering gravity, measured?

• In newtons

• In kilograms

• In meters

• In joules

What is a push or a pull on an object that has both size and direction?

• Weight

• Force

• Friction

• Mass

What is the force of gravity acting on an object's mass called?

• Net Force

• Balanced Force

• Weight

• Inertia

What is the total force acting on an object when all the individual forces are combined?

• Net Force

• Balanced Force

• Unbalanced Force

• Equilibrium

What are forces that are equal in size but opposite in direction, canceling each other out, called?

• Unbalanced Forces

• Net Force

• Balanced Forces

• Dynamic Equilibrium

What are forces that are not equal and opposite, causing a change in an object's motion, called?

• Balanced Forces

• Unbalanced Forces

• Static Equilibrium

• Action-Reaction Pair

What is a state where all forces on an object are balanced, resulting in no change in its motion?

• Dynamic Equilibrium

• Static Equilibrium

• Equilibrium

• Net Force

What is it called when an object is at rest and all forces acting on it are balanced?

• Dynamic Equilibrium

• Static Equilibrium

• Unbalanced Forces

• Action-Reaction Pair

What is it called when an object is moving at a constant speed in a straight line, and all forces acting on it are balanced?

• Static Equilibrium

• Unbalanced Forces

• Dynamic Equilibrium

• Net Force