Forces and Motion Vocabulary

To draw something toward something else

• mass

• energy

• constraints

• attract

The force that moves something away from something else

• pull

• attract

• push

• position

Another word for stored energy

• potential energy

• solar energy

• energy transfer

• kinetic energy

This is the kind of energy that moves

• potential energy

• kinetic energy

• energy transfer

• engineering process

This is potential energy. It is waiting for an energy transfer and then it will move or display kinetic energy.

• kinetic energy

• stored energy

• engineering process

• force

This explains how much matter there is. It is not the same as weight but can be measured when compared to another object

• gravity

• mass

• magnetism

• constraints

When you see this, you now there has been an energy transfer. It is when an object has been displaced from it's original position.

• force

• mass

• gravity

• motion

These two things will increase the potential energy level. (choose two!)

• how high the item is placed (or how far it will be from earth)

• how big the mass is (the bigger the mass, the stronger the force)

• how low the item is placed

• how big the mass is (the bigger mass creates less potential energy)

When this happens, there is usually a change in direction and the speed or velocity of an object that collides with another object

• A energy transfer

• B engineering process

• c magnetism

• D motion