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Unit 4-Motion and Energy

Total questions: 38

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is speed?

a)

How fast something moves

b)

How far something travels

c)

How long it takes something to travel

d)

How good something tastes

2.

What is distance?

a)

How fast something moves

b)

How far something travels

c)

How long it takes something to travel

d)

How good something tastes

3.

What is time?

a)

How fast something moves

b)

How far something travels

c)

How long it takes something to travel

d)

How good something tastes

4.

What is a unit for speed?

a)

meters per second

b)

seconds

c)

meters

d)

miles

5.

What is unit for time?

a)

meters per hour

b)

hours

c)

meters

d)

miles per hour

6.

What is a unit for time?

a)

miles per hour

b)

minutes per hour

c)

minutes

d)

miles

7.

What is a unit for distance?

a)

kilometer

b)

kilometers per hour

c)

hours

d)

years

8.

What is a unit for speed?

a)

miles

b)

m/s

c)

seconds

d)

meters

9.

What is the equation for solving for speed?

a)

S=D/T

b)

S=DxT

c)

S=T/D

d)

T=D/S

10.

What is the equation for solving for time

a)

T=S/D

b)

T=DxS

c)

D=SxT

d)

T=D/S

11.

What is the equation for distance

a)

S=D/T

b)

D=SxT

c)

D=S/T

d)

T=D/S

12.

The tree is 24 meters away from where you stand. It will take you 4 seconds to reach the tree. What is your average speed?

a)

8 meters

b)

8 meters per second

c)

6 meters

d)

6 m/s

13.

A train is traveling down a straight tract at a constance speed of 40 miles per hour. It travels at this speed for 8 hours. What are you solving for?

a)

Distance

b)

Speed

c)

Time

d)

Weight

14.

How long will it take an object traveling 100 kilometers per hour to travel 800 kilometers?

a)

10 hours

b)

8 kilometers

c)

8 hours

d)

8 kilometers per hour

15.

Some sharks can swim at average cruising speeds of 3 miles per hour. If a shark swam at that average speed for 7 hours, how far would it have traveled?

a)

0.43 miles

b)

0.43 mph

c)

21 miles

d)

21 mph

16.

What type of energy moves through wires to be converted to other types of energy

a)

Potential energy

b)

Electrical energy

c)

Solar Energy

d)

Thermal Energy

17.

What type of energy increases as gravity increases?

a)

Kinetic energy

b)

Thermal energy

c)

Potential energy

d)

Mechanical energy

18.

What type of energy increases as the mass of an object increases?

a)

Kinetic energy

b)

Potential energy

c)

Mechanical energy

d)

Solar energy

19.

What type of energy is "stored energy" or energy due to position?

a)

Kinetic energy

b)

Potential energy

c)

Mechanical energy

d)

Thermal energy

20.

What type of energy cannot move through empty space?

a)

Kinetic energy

b)

Potential energy

c)

Mechanical energy

d)

Sound energy

21.

At what point does the runner have a speed of 0?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

E

22.

Between what two points is the runner accelerating?

a)

C & D

b)

O & A

c)

A & B

d)

B & C

23.

Between what two points is the runner decelerating?

a)

C & D

b)

O & A

c)

A & B

d)

B & C

24.

Between what two points is the runner moving at a constant speed?

a)

C & D

b)

O & A

c)

A & B

d)

B & C

25.

At what point does the car have the most kinetic energy?

a)

W

b)

X

c)

Y

d)

Z

26.

At what point does the car have the most potential energy?

a)

W

b)

X

c)

Y

d)

Z

27.

At what point(s) is the object not moving?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

28.

At what point is the object moving at the fastest speed?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

29.

At what point(s) is the object moving at a constant speed?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

30.

Energy is

a)

how fast something moves

b)

how much work something can do

c)

how long it takes something to travel

d)

how far something goes

31.

Mechanical energy is converted to ___________ energy when Ethan plays the piano.

a)

Thermal

b)

Sound

c)

Heat

d)

Light

32.

Describe the object's motion.

a)

Moving at a constant speed

b)

Accelerating

c)

Slowing down

d)

Not moving

33.

Describe the object E's motion.

a)

Moving at a constant speed

b)

Accelerating

c)

Slowing down

d)

Not moving

34.

Describe object B's motion

a)

Moving at a constant speed

b)

Accelerating

c)

Slowing down

d)

Not moving

35.

Describe object A's motion.

a)

Moving at a constant speed

b)

Accelerating

c)

Slowing down

d)

Not moving

36.

Describe the object's motion.

a)

Moving at a constant speed

b)

Accelerating

c)

Slowing down

d)

Not moving

37.

Describe the object's motion

a)

Moving at a constant speed

b)

Accelerating

c)

Slowing down

d)

Not moving

38.

Describe the object's motion.

a)

Moving at a constant speed

b)

Accelerating

c)

Slowing down

d)

Not moving