6th Grade-Newton's Laws/Inclined Planes

Mr. Snead and Mrs. Chipman are pulling on a rope on opposite sides.  Mr. Snead pulls with 5N and Mrs. Chipman pulls at 25N.  Who wins?

• Mr. Snead
• Mrs. Chipman
• Neither Mr. Snead or Mrs. Chipman
• Mrs. Sullivan 

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In question #1 with Mr. Snead with 5N and Mrs. Chipman with 25N, what is the net force?

• 20N
• 25N
• 15N
• 5N

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You sit on the kitchen table and it collapses on you.  Why did this happen?

• The forces were balanced.
• The forces were equal.
• The forces were unbalanced.
• The table was really cheap. 

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You are doing garden work and the more dirt you put in your wheel barrow the harder it is to push it.  Why is this happening?

• Your wheel barrow has a flat tire. 
• As the mass increases, the amount of force needed to push it decreases. 
• As the mass decreases, the amount of force needed to push it increases
• As the mass increases, the amount of force needed to push it increases. 

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If you put fuel in a rocket and it ignites, the force goes out the back of the rocket and the rockets reaction goes where?

• It moves down. 
• It moves to the right.
• It moves in a circle
• It moves up.

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When you pedal a bicycle it is.....

• A great way to get around town.   
• An unbalanced force that makes it go.
• A balanced force that causes it to accelerate

When you are on a school bus standing up and it suddenly stops, your body continues to go forward.  This happens because of what?

• Gravity
• Friction
• The bus driver is horrible. 
• Inertia

Mr. Snead is jumping on a pogo stick.  He notices that when he pushes down on the pogo stick the reaction is that he goes up.  Why is this happening?

• Friction
• Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
• Inertia
• Mr. Snead loves to jump. 

Mrs. Chipman was driving home from work.  She had her groceries in the front seat.  Mrs. Chipman saw a deer in the road and slammed on her brakes to avoid hitting the deer.  What happened to the groceries that were in Mrs. Chipman's front seat?

• They moved to the side of the car. 
• They didn't move at all. 
• They moved towards the back of the car. 
• They moved forward. 

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Mrs. Dean is pulling her 60lb., 5 year old son in a grocery cart at the store.  All of the sudden her son wants his mother to get on the cart so he can pull his mother around the store.  Why can't the son pull his mother in the cart?

• There is not enough mass for the cart to accelerate. 
• The acceleration increases when the force decreases. 
• There isn't enough force to make the cart accelerate.