Forces Foundation of Physical Science

What is motion?

• When something stays still in it's position
• Is a change in an objects position

Position is

• School
• Your location
• Always moving
• Fast

Speed is

• How fast something moves or changes position
• How fast something stops
• Slow
• always the same

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An object can keep moving in one direction or it can change direction

• True
• False

Regular motion

• Is random
• Follows a pattern

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A pattern is

• Something that never repeats
• Something that repeats over and over

An example of regular motion is

• A swing moving back and forth over and over
• A seesaw going up and down in the same way each time
• Both are examples of regular motion

A force is a push or a pull.

• True
• False

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Force can not cause an object to move.

• True
• False

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What is a push and a pull?

• A push moves something away from you and a pull moves it toward you.
• A push pulls something toward you and a pull moves something away from you.
• Isn't Science

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