Quiz about Force, Motion, Energy

Question 1

Friction creates _________.

Accepted Answer

heat

Answer

mass

Answer

force

Answer

direction

Question 2

What is needed to do work or cause change?

Accepted Answer

Energy

Answer

Push

Answer

Pull

Answer

Gravity

Question 3

What is electromagnetic energy that can be sensed by the eye?

Accepted Answer

Light Energy

Answer

Water

Answer

Sound Energy

Answer

Force

Question 4

What is energy that travels as waves through the air or water and vibrates the ear drum upon contact?

Accepted Answer

Sound Energy

Answer

Light Energy

Answer

Mechanical Energy

Answer

Electrical Energy

Question 5

What is change in position or location?

Accepted Answer

Movement

Answer

Mechanical Energy

Answer

Lens

Answer

Force

Question 6

What is the force that causes objects with mass to attract one another?

Accepted Answer

Gravity

Answer

Friction

Answer

Pull

Answer

Force

Question 7

A student uses a spring scale to pull a 50-gram block horizontally across a wood desk. Then the student pulls the block the same distance across surfaces of carpet, sandpaper, and glass. Which question is this investigation most likely designed to answer? (5.6D)

Accepted Answer

How do different surfaces affect the amount of force needed to move a block?

Answer

How do block of different sizes react to force?

Answer

How do blocks affect spring scales?

Answer

How does the mass of a block change when it is pulled across a desk?

Question 8

A student designs an experiment to test the force of a spring using a spring launcher and four spheres with the same diameter but with different masses. What other piece of equipment would be most useful for this experiment? (5.6D)

Accepted Answer

A meterstick to measure the height each sphere reaches after the sphere is launched

Answer

A graduated cylinder to measure the volume of each sphere before the sphere is launched

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A beaker to collect the spheres after they are launched

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A stopwatch to measure how long it takes to load each sphere on the spring

Question 9

What is the unit of force in the International System of Units (SI)?

Accepted Answer

Newton

Answer

Joule

Answer

Watt

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Pascal

Question 10

Which of the following is an example of kinetic energy?

Accepted Answer

A rolling ball

Answer

A compressed spring

Answer

A charged battery

Answer

A stretched rubber band

Question 11

What law explains the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it?

Accepted Answer

Newton's Second Law

Answer

Newton's First Law

Answer

Newton's Third Law

Answer

Law of Conservation of Energy

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