Sci6 Ch 9 Motion Vocab

What is the ability to make something move?

• mechanical energy

• kinetic energy

• potential energy

• motion

What is energy due to motion?

• kinetic energy

• potential energy

• mechanical energy

• inertia

What is stored energy?

• potential energy

• kinetic energy

• mechanical energy

• gravity

__________ is the change of an object's position.

• motion

• friction

• reference point

• velocity

What is the location of a fixed, unmoving object?

• reference point

• velocity

• inertia

• momentum

What is the measurement between the place you start and the place you stop?

• distance

• gravity

• velocity

• acceleration

The rate at which an object moves or a person runs is called?

• speed

• inertia

• kinetic energy

• mechanical energy

What refers to the distance an object moves over a given amount of time in a certain direction?

• velocity

• potential energy

• distance

• friction

__________ is the change in velocity during a period of time.

• acceleration

• motion

• potential energy

• speed

What is a force that keeps objects from moving against other objects?

• friction

• speed

• kinetic energy

• gravity