Roller Coaster Physics Vocabulary Assessment

What is velocity?

• the quickness of an object
• the location of an object
• acceleration
• speed in a specific direction

What is the formula to calculate speed?

• Speed = time/distance
• Speed = distance/time
• Speed = distance x time
• Speed = time x distance

What is speed?

• how far you go
• how much distance is covered over a period of time
• how fast you accelerate
• the change in the location of a object

Tags

CCSS.HSF.IF.B.4

Acceleration is defined as the CHANGE in 

• time it takes for one place to move to another place. 
• velocity of an object.
• distance divided by the time interval 
• velocity divided by the time interval 

Energy due to motion is ____________ energy. 

• Potential 
• Energy
• Kinetic
• Friction

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

__________ is stored energy. 

• Potential
• Kinetic
• None of the above 
• All of the above 

What is gravity?

• A force
• Energy
• A push
• All of them

Without gravity we would________. 

• Float away
• Stay in the ground
• Nothing would happen.
• I don't know

A ____________ is a push or a pull on an object.

• friction
• force
• magnet
• gravity

If these teams are pulling with the same amount of force what will happen?

• The boy in blue will win.
• They will not move at all.
• The boy in red will win.
• Both will fall down.