Investigating Forces Vocabulary Review

not moving

• at rest

• levitate

• problem

• gravity

to pull something closer

• cause and effect

• balanced forces

• attract

• repel

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a collection of forces acting on an

object that cancel each other out and produce no

change in the object’s motion

• underground railroad

• balanced forces

• surface

• clouds

a push or pull between two objects that

are touching each other

• engineering design

• Asia

• sticky

• contact force

a push or a pull

• orientation

• force

• lubricant

• outer space

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a force that occurs between the surfaces of two

objects that are touching

• friction

• industrial revolution

• direction

• patent

a force that pulls objects toward Earth’s

surface

• mars

• gravity

• surface

• strength

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a substance that reduces friction between

objects in contact

• attract

• force

• lubricant

• push

a material that applies the force of

magnetism

• overcome

• speed

• solution

• magnet

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the places on a magnet where the

magnetic force is strongest

• magnetic poles

• dinosaurs

• Earth's Core

• attract