Motion Review Quiz

What is the term for the amount of matter in an object?

• Momentum

• Mass

• Distance

• Displacement

What is the product of an object’s mass and velocity called?

• Speed

• Acceleration

• Momentum

• Rate

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How is the measure of how far an object has moved defined?

• Displacement

• Distance

• Velocity

• Speed

What is the rate of change in position at a given point in time?

• Instantaneous speed

• Average speed

• Constant speed

• Changing

What term describes the distance and direction an object moves from its starting point from it initial position to its final position?

• Distance

• Displacement

• Velocity

• Rate

How is the total distance an object travels divided by the time of travel defined?

• Average speed

• Instantaneous speed

• Constant speed

• Changing

What is the rate of change of an object’s position?

• Speed

• Velocity

• Displacement

• Distance

What is the term for an object that is neither speeding up nor slowing down?

• Constant speed

• Average speed

• Instantaneous speed

• Changing

What is a graph with distance on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis called?

• Distance-time graph

• Velocity-time graph

• Speed-time graph

• Acceleration-time graph

When an object is accelerating, how is its speed described?

• Constant

• Changing

• Instantaneous

• Average