Forces and Motion Vocabulary with Pictures

______________________ is any push or pull on an object.

• Force
• Mass
• Gravity
• Air Resistance

A _________ uses force to move an object towards you. 

• Pull
• Push
• Motion
• Force

A ________ uses force to move an object away from you. 

• Push
• Pull
• Gravity
• Motion

If I kick a soccer ball across the field, what vocabulary word tells me why the ball would slow down in the grass?

• acceleration
• friction
• gravity

The change in a objects position is________.

• Force
• Motion
• Reaction
• movement

The force that pulls all objects toward each other is called_______?

• push
• pull
• gravity
• mass

A push or pull that causes an object. to move

• Force

• Gravity

• Friction

• Lubricant

What pulls a ball back to earth?

• Gas
• Gravity
• Friction
• Molecules

What is a change in an object’s position compared to objects around it?

• force

• position

• velocity

• motion

When an object in not in motion, or when it has stopped

• at rest

• push

• roll

• balanced