Speed Practice Problems

The correct equation to calculate speed is

• distance/time
• time/distance
• distance x time
• distance/time²

What is velocity?

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

Find the velocity of a truck that travels 75 miles north in 2.5 hours.

• 187.5 mph north
• 30 mph north
• 300 mph north
• 200 mph north

Find the average speed of a train that traveled 540 km in 6 hours?

• 80 km/h
• 100 km/h
• 90 km/h
• 3240 km/h

How far will a person go if they jog for 2 hours at a speed of 12 km/hr?

• 6 km
• 0.5 km
• 10 km
• 24 km

How long would it take for a car to travel a distance of 200 kilometers if it is traveling at a velocity of 55 km/hr? 

• 20 min
• 11,000 min
• 3.6 hrs
• 5 hrs 

John took 90 minutes to bicycle to his grandmother's house, a total of six kilometers.  What was his speed (pay attention to units)? 

• 540 km/hr
• .066 km/hr
• 4 km/hr
• 9 km/hr

Polar bears are extremely good swimmers.  If a polar bear is swimming with an average of 2.6 m/s, how far will it have traveled after 120 seconds?

• 46.2 m
• 120 m
• 312 m
• 456.3 m

Tree sloths are the slowest moving mammals.  On average, their velocity is 0.743 m/s.  How long does it take a tree sloth moving at this velocity to travel 22.3 m?

• 16.6 s
• 30.0 s
• 0.03 s
• 143.7 s

If a lizard can run 8 m across the water in 4 seconds, how fast is he traveling?

• 32 m/s

• 2 m/s

• 2 seconds

• 34 meters

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1