Science Motion

Motion is when an object changes its position

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A baseball player scores a home run, running from home base around the diamond, back to home base. What is the distance she is running?

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An object moves, or is in motion, when it changes its position relative to a reference ________________. Motion is a _________________in position over time. P. 304

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A change in position is evidence that motion has ___________________________.

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1. Sometimes you want to know the straight line _______________-between two positions, or the displacement.

A change in an object’s position tells you that motion took ______________, but it does not tell you how quickly the object changed position.

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1. The _____________of an object is a measure of how far something __________________ in a given amount of time.

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In other words, speed measures how quickly or slowly the ____________changes position.

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In the same amount of time, a faster object would move farther than a ________________moving object would.

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Average speed is a way to calculate the speed of an object that my not always be moving at a ________________speed.

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