Vocabulary Words - Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration

The distance an object travels per unit of time is called?

• Speed

• Negative Acceleration

• Distance

• Acceleration

What is the definition of gravity?

• The attractive force between objects; the force that moves objects downhill.

• A measure of how much matter is in an object.

• A decrease in velocity.

• The steepness of a graph line.

What is Negative Acceleration?

• Speed in a given direction.

• A decrease in velocity.

• The change in position of an object.

• The measure of how far two things are apart.

The state in which one object's distance from another is changing is called?

• Slope

• Motion

• Gravity

What is the definition of Distance?

• An increase in velocity.

• Speed in a given direction.

• The rate at which velocity changes.

• The measure of how far two things are apart.

The change in the position of an object is called?

• Negative Acceleration

• Displacement

• Slope

• Velocity

Speed in a given direction is called?

• Motion

• Velocity

• Slope

• Gravity

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

The rate at which velocity changes is called?

• Distance

• Acceleration

• Displacement

• Slope

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The steepness of a graph line is called?

• Velocity

• Acceleration

• Slope

• Negative Acceleratiion

What is the definition of Positive Acceleration?

• Speed in a given direction.

• A decrease in velocity.

• The change in position of an object.

• An increase in velocity.