HMH 5.3 - 5.5 Vocabulary Review

A push or pull

• Force

• Acceleration

• Mass

• None of the above

A contact force

• doesn't touch an object it acts on

• must touch an object it acts on

• both answers

Gravity and magnetism are examples of

• contact forces

• non contact forces

• masses

• none of the above

Contact forces must touch the object they act on.

• True

• False

A force can transfer energy.

• True

• False

____________ happens when an object moves while touching another object which slows the object down.

• Acceleration

• Mass

• Gravity

• Friction

When a force transfers energy, it converts kinetic energy to ___________ energy.

• sun

• thermal

• heat

• both thermal and heat

The combination of all the forces acting on an object is the

• net force

• acceleration

• gravitational pull

• magnetism

When forces are balanced, there is no ______________.

• motion

• gravity

• friction

• magnetism

If the net force is greater than zero, the forces are __________.

• balanced

• unbalanced

• correct

• incorrect