Contact Forces Unit 7.3 Vocabulary

Match the term "Dependent Variable" with its correct definition.

• Change in speed or direction, or both

• When an object bends or changes shape

• Kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, light, sound, nuclear

• The variable that you observe the effects caused by a change in the independent variable

• The contact forces between a moving object and the air particles it collides with

Match the term "Inertia" with its correct definition.

• Kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, light, sound, nuclear

• When an object bends or changes shape

• The idea that an object will continue its current motion until some force causes its speed/direction to change

• Change in speed or direction, or both

• The contact forces between a moving object and the air particles it collides with

Match the term "Forms of energy" with its correct definition.

• A diagram that shows the force acting on a single object in a system

• The contact forces between a moving object and the air particles it collides with

• Change in speed or direction, or both

• When an object bends or changes shape

• Kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, light, sound, nuclear

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Match the term "Impact" with its correct definition.

• When an object bends or changes shape

• When 2 objects collide

• Kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, light, sound, nuclear

• Change in speed or direction, or both

• The contact forces between a moving object and the air particles it collides with

Tags

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Match the term "Deform" with its correct definition.

• Kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, light, sound, nuclear

• The contact forces between a moving object and the air particles it collides with

• Change in speed or direction, or both

• A diagram that shows the force acting on a single object in a system

• When an object bends or changes shape

Match the term "Gravity" with its correct definition.

• When an object bends or changes shape

• The force that pulls objects towards the center of the Earth

• Kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, light, sound, nuclear

• Change in speed or direction, or both

• The contact forces between a moving object and the air particles it collides with

Match the term "Free body diagram" with its correct definition.

• Kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, light, sound, nuclear

• When an object bends or changes shape

• The contact forces between a moving object and the air particles it collides with

• Change in speed or direction, or both

• A diagram that shows the force acting on a single object in a system

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Match the term "Net force" with its correct definition.

• The contact forces between a moving object and the air particles it collides with

• Change in speed or direction, or both

• The sum of all forces acting on an object

• When an object bends or changes shape

• Kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, light, sound, nuclear

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Match the term "Air resistance" with its correct definition.

• The contact forces between a moving object and the air particles it collides with

• A diagram that shows the force acting on a single object in a system

• Kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, light, sound, nuclear

• Change in speed or direction, or both

• When an object bends or changes shape

Tags

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Match the term "Independent Variable" with its correct definition.

• When an object bends or changes shape

• The variable that you change each time you test

• Kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, light, sound, nuclear

• Change in speed or direction, or both

• The contact forces between a moving object and the air particles it collides with

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