Vocabulary 1

When an object is not in motion/ the same amount of force is being applied to an object in all directions.

• Unbalanced Forces

• Accelerate

• Balanced Forces

• Inertia

A _________ is a force that causes a change in the motion of an object.

• Cause

• Balanced Force

• Accelerate

• Unbalanced Force

What is gravity?

• a push or a pull upon an object resulting from the object's interaction with another object.

• What happens as a result of a the cause.

• Being able to move more quickly.

• A non-contact force that pulls objects toward each other.

A ________ is a statement about what will happen based on evidence.

• Cause

• Magnet

• Prediction

• Investigation

When you take a look at something, noticing facts or taking measurements, you are __________________.

• Making an observation

• Making a prediction

• Showing unbalanced forces

• Showing balanced forces

A ___________ makes something happen.

• Cause

• Effect

• Force

• Acceleration

What is an effect?

• What makes something happen.

• The action of moving.

• What happens as a result of a cause.

• Being able to move quickly.

What are you doing when: you look for answers, you ask questions and gather evidence in order to find out what happened?

• Performing an investigation.

• Showing a cause

• Showing the properties of attraction possessed by magnets.

• Showing an effect.

A ___________ is a push or pull upon an object resulting from the object's interaction with another object.

• Mass

• Motion

• Force

• Effect

Mass is the ______ of an object.

• Motion

• Force

• Gravity

• Weight