Science - Unit 3 Vocabulary Review

A change in velocity

• Collision

• Action

• Accelleration

• Speed

Something done or performed

• Motion

• Acceleration

• Action

• Kinetic Energy

Two forces acting in opposite directions on an object, and equal in size.

• Balanced Forces

• Unbalanced Forces

• Kinetic Energy

• Potential Energy

The meeting of particles or bodies in which each exerts a force upon the other, causing the exchange of energy or momentum

• Push

• Pull

• Mass

• Collision

An influence on an object that produces a change in movement or in shape (a push or pull)

• Force

• Mass

• Newton's First Law of Motion

• Newton's Third Law of Motion

Energy of an object in motion

• Potential Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Acceleration

• Push

The quantity of matter as determined from weight

• Mass

• Motion

• Reaction

• Action

The action or process of moving or of changing place or position

• Mass

• Motion

• Potential Energy

• Action

An object at rest tends to stay at rest, and an object in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted upon by an outside, unbalanced force

• Newton's First Law of Motion

• Newton's Second Law of Motion

• Newton's Third Law of Motion

• Speed

Acceleration of an object depends on the force and mass

• Newton's First Law of Motion

• Newton's Second Law of Motion

• Newton's Third Law of Motion

• Acceleration