Force and Motion Vocabulary Quiz

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1. When you push a shopping cart at the grocery store, what is the term for the action you are performing on the cart?

• A) Direction

• B) Force

• C) Position

• D) Weight

A car is accelerating on a highway. What unit would you use to measure the force exerted by the engine?

• A) Kilograms

• B) Meters

• C) Newtons

• D) Seconds

What do we call forces that cancel each other out because they are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction?

• A) Unbalanced forces

• B) Balanced Forces

• C) Gravity

• D) Friction

4. Luna is riding her bicycle to school. The measure of how fast she moves over time is:

• A) Acceleration

• B) Direction

• C) Position

• D) Speed

What is the force that pulls objects toward each other due to their masses?

• A) Electromagnetism

• B) Tension

• C) Gravity

• D) Pressure

Evelyn is trying to measure the gravitational force acting on her science project model of a planet. What is she actually measuring?

• A) Mass

• B) Speed

• C) Weight

• D) Direction

What term describes the rate of change of speed or direction of an object?

• A) Inertia

• B) Momentum

• C) Acceleration

• D) Displacement

What is the term used to describe the quantity of matter in a body?

9. Sophia used a tool that makes a task easier by changing the strength or direction of a force. This tool is a _____________ _____________.