Speed, Velocity and Acceleration Review

How is speed measured?

• mass and acceleration 
• distance/ time
• mass/time
• mass/velocity

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

A girl skates around the perimeter of a circular ice rink at a constant speed of 2 m/s. Is the girl accelerating?

• Yes
• No

Calculate the speed of a train that traveled 400 miles in 5 hours. (speed = distance/time)

• 20 mph

• 20 m/s

• 80 mph

• 80 m/s

A plane flying 300 m/s west toward California is an example of...

• Speed

• Velocity

• Acceleration

• Direction

Calculate the speed of a sprinter who ran 200 meters in 20 seconds. (speed = distance / time)

• 10 m/s

• 10 km/s

• 10 m/hr

• 10 km/hr

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.6.NS.B.3

A runner races in the 100 meter dash. It takes her 10 seconds to finish. What is her average speed? (average speed = total distance / total time)

• 10 m/s

• 1000 m/s

• 100 seconds

• 10 seconds

Total distance divided by total time is

• average speed
• constant speed
• instantaneous speed
• acceleration

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CCSS.8.F.B.4

CCSS.HSF.IF.B.6

Velocity is both ____ and _____. 

• speed , direction 
• direction, mass
• volume, density 
• direction, magnitude 

Tags

CCSS.HSN.VM.A.1

Find the velocity of a plane that traveled 3000 miles west in 5 hours. (velocity = distance / time)

• 65 mph west

• 6 mph west

• 600 mph west

• 6000 mph west