Force and Motion Vocab

The measure of how fast an object moves

• Speed

• Momentum

• force

• pull

How far one thing is from another

• speed

• force

• Distance

• mass

A property of matter that it remains at rest until acted upon by another force

• inertia

• mass

• direction 

• speed

Force is

• distance

• speed

• motion

• a push or pull

motion is

• momentum

• a change in position

• distance

• a balanced force

A magnet_____ to certain metals

• friction

• repels

• attracts

• dissolves

opposite poles

• attract

• repel

• call each other

• Text

An object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by a

The Force that keeps up down on earth is

• Momentum

• Forces

• Gravity

• friction

The amount of force needed to move an object

• Force

• push

• Pull

• Weight