Motion Vocabulary Test

Zoe, Isla, and Aria are having a friendly race across the playground! Can you help them out? What is the term for the following definition: 'length of a straight line between two points'?

• displacement

• distance

• velocity

• area

Arjun, Zoe, and Aria are on a wild race from Point A to Point B, zigzagging through twisty turns and loops! What do we call the 'total length of the path they actually travel from Point A to Point B'?

• distance

• displacement

• velocity

• acceleration

Michael, Mia, and Evelyn are having a thrilling race with their toy cars! Can you guess the term for this definition: 'ratio of distance traveled to the amount of time taken'?

• speed

• acceleration

• velocity

• force

Maya, Zoe, and Arjun are having a thrilling bike race! Maya shouts, "I'm zooming at 10 meters per second to the north!" What is the scientific term for 'speed in a specific direction' that Maya is describing?

• velocity

• acceleration

• distance

• momentum

Mia and Oliver are having a friendly skateboard race down a straight path. Mia notices that Oliver's speed never changes throughout the race. What is the term for this type of motion?

• uniform motion

• accelerated motion

• oscillatory motion

• random motion

Emma, Priya, and Evelyn are at an amusement park, staring at a wild roller coaster graph. They’re curious: what do you call the 'steepness of a graph at a given point'? Can you help them figure it out?

• slope

• intercept

• vertex

• axis

Lily, Isla, and Evelyn are having a friendly tug-of-war in the schoolyard. What is the scientific term for the 'push or pull' that they are all using to try and win?

• force

• energy

• mass

• velocity

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Daniel, Abigail, and Aiden are having a super exciting race! Suddenly, Daniel decides to freeze like a statue and refuses to budge! What is the term for the 'tendency of an object to remain stationary or to remain in motion' that explains Daniel's stubborn freeze?

• inertia

• velocity

• momentum

• friction

Michael, Evelyn, and Benjamin are having a lively tug-of-war match at recess! If the force on the rope from one team isn’t matched by the other team, what is this type of force called?

• unbalanced force

• balanced force

• gravitational force

• frictional force

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Daniel, Emma, and Benjamin are having a friendly tug-of-war challenge! Daniel and Emma team up and pull on one side, while Benjamin pulls with exactly the same strength in the opposite direction. What is the term for 'forces of equal magnitude but in opposite directions acting on the same object'?

• balanced forces

• unbalanced forces

• gravitational forces

• frictional forces