Motion Review

A truck driving at 60 miles per hour travels 150 miles. How long is it driving for?

• 9000 hours
• 0.4 hours
• 210 hours
• 2.5 hours

A distance vs. time graph shows an object's

• frame of reference
• speed
• acceleration
• favorite food

A car driving at 50 miles per hour drives for 2 hours. What distance did it cover?

• 50 miles
• 25 miles
• 100 miles
• 75 miles

Velocity is

• speed and acceleration
• constant speed
• a frame of reference
• speed in a given direction

Acceleration is

• increasing speed
• decreasing speed
• changing direction
• all of the above

A ceiling fan rotating in a circle at a constant speed of 1 m/s is accelerating. True or False?

• True
• False

Change in speed over a given period of time is

• velocity
• motion
• speed
• acceleration

What is the SI unit for acceleration?

• m
• s
• m/s
• m/s/s or m/s2

The steepness of a line on a graph is called the 

• rise
• run
• slant
• slope

Slope is equal to 

• rise/run
• run/rise
• rise + run
• rise - run