Motion and Speed Vocabulary

Which of the following statements about speed and velocity is correct?

• Velocity only describes an object’s rate of motion.

• Speed describes how an object is changing its velocity.

• Speed and velocity both describe how an object is speeding up.

• Only velocity includes the direction an object is traveling.

A dog runs on the sidewalk 9 mi/hr.

• Speed

• Acceleration

• Velocity

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What is speed?

• how far you go

• how much distance is covered over a period of time

• how fast you accelerate

• the change in the location of a object

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The tornado is traveling northwest at 20 mph. 

• speed

• velocity

• acceleration

The word acceleration means

• an increase in rate of change

• uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing

• distance traveled per unit time in one direction

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The word Speed means

• a rate at which something happens

• a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous

• distance traveled per unit time in one direction

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The word Velocity means

• distance traveled per unit time in one direction

• the continuum of experience in which events pass to the past

• the property of a body that causes it to have weight

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The word Distance means

• distance traveled per unit time in one direction

• a change downward

• the property created by the space between two objects

An object’s change in position relative to a reference point

• Force

• Motion

• Speed

The distance traveled divided by the time it took to travel

• Speed

• Motion

• Force