MI-Star 6.4 Vocab Review

A quantity that has a magnitude and a direction; shown by an arrow representing a force in one direction - must be labeled.

• Magnitude

• Vector

• Force

• Speed

Amount of something; how large or small something is, represented by the length of vector arrow.

• Vector

• Force

• Magnitude

• Motion

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

The equal and opposite forces always present when two objects are in contact. The objects push together equally or pull apart equally.

• Force Pair

• Magnitude

• Balanced

• Unbalanced

A push or a pull.

• Magnitude

• Vector

• Force

• Motion

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NGSS.MS-PS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

When the sum of the forces on an individual object add up to zero.

• Gravity

• Magnitude

• Stable

• Mass

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

When the sum of the forces on an individual object add up to zero.

• Balanced forces.

• Unbalanced forces.

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

When the sum of the forces on an individual object do not add up to zero.

• Balanced forces.

• Unbalanced forces.

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

A “downward” force exerted on everything that has mass by the earth.

• Mass

• Magnitude

• Force

• Gravity

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The amount of matter in an object.

• Gravity

• Motion

• Mass

• Forces

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Variables/conditions that are kept the same in an investigation.

• Constants

• Forces

• Collisions

• Investigation