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FORCE AND MOTION INTRODUCTION

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a push or pull of an object?

a)

motion

b)

friction

c)

force

d)

gravity

2.

Which force produces a change in motion?

a)

unbalanced force

b)

gravitational force

c)

balance force

d)

friction force

3.

if these girls are pulling with sam amount of force. What will happen to them?

a)

the girls in blue will win

b)

the girls in red will win

c)

they will not move at all

d)

both of them will fall down

4.

Which of the following statements is true?

a)

balanced forces cause a change in motion

b)

forces do not affect the change in motion

c)

unbalanced forces cause a change in motion

d)

all of them are true

5.

What are two examples of forces?

a)

art and music

b)

a stand or ground

c)

a push or a pull

d)

the dark side and the light side

6.

What pulls a ball back to Earth?

a)

gas

b)

friction

c)

molecules

d)

gravity

7.

What is a force that works AGAINST MOTION?

a)

force

b)

gravity

c)

motion

d)

friction

8.

A ________ is a pull or a push.

a)

force

b)

gravity

c)

friction

d)

speed

9.

________ is a force that acts between two objects which are touching. This force shows any movement between two objects.

a)

pressure

b)

friction

c)

magnetism

d)

speed

10.

When you type on the keys of your keyboard you are using a

a)

pull

b)

gravity

c)

push

d)

friction

11.

One way that a force can cause the change in an objects motion is.....

a)

do nothing

b)

start the object moving

c)

eat ice cream

d)

shine on the object

12.

A ________ moves an object closer to you.

a)

push

b)

friction

c)

pull

d)

cat

13.

How are push and a pull alike?

a)

you can hear them both

b)

you can do tehm both at the same time

c)

they are both correctly the same

d)

they are both forces

14.

What forces moves an object away from you?

a)

push

b)

jedi force

c)

pull

d)

gravity

15.

Anothr way that force can cause the change in an objects motion is to....

a)

change its color

b)

changes its direction

c)

change its pitch

d)

changes its spot

16.

_______ is the force that slows and stops motion between touching objects.

a)

friction

b)

pull

c)

gravity

d)

push

17.

Is gravity a push or a pull?

a)

push

b)

neither

c)

pull

d)

both

18.

What is the name of an weight hung from a fixed point so that it can swing freely back and forth?

a)

rope

b)

bridge

c)

pendulum

d)

electromagnet

19.

When conducting an experiment, the best way to tell how changing something (a variable) affects the thing being changed is _______

a)

to change your clothes

b)

to change as many variables as you can

c)

to change only ONE variable at a time

d)

to change your name

20.

What is the name of our subject in Science?

a)

Force and Pressure

b)

Gravity and Force

c)

Magnet and Force

d)

Force and Motion

21.

It takes more force to pick up a bowling ball than tennis ball because.

a)

the tennis ball is heavier

b)

the bowling ball i lighter

c)

the tennis ball has more mass

d)

the bowling ball is heavier

22.

What keeps Earth and all the other planets in orbit around the Sun?

a)

a push

b)

gravity

c)

a pull

d)

magnetism

23.

A magnet attracts objects made of...

a)

paper

b)

iron

c)

glass

d)

plastic

24.

An objects motion can be changed by

a)

a push or a pull

b)

weight

c)

temperature

d)

size

25.

the two poles on a magnet are north and south

a)

true

b)

sometimes

c)

false

d)

none at all

26.

Which of the following are forces that could move a soccer ball across a floor?

a)

light

b)

a push or a pull

c)

a magnet

d)

a rubber ball

27.

Gravuty pulls objects...

a)

to the right

b)

down

c)

toward the center of the Earth

d)

to the left

28.

All of the following are examples of a push except one?

a)

pressing a button on a phone

b)

stapling papers together

c)

knocking over a glass of milk

d)

picking a flower in a garden

29.

Throwing a ball and moving a chair are an example of...

a)

pushes

b)

pulls

c)

gravity

d)

weight

30.

All of these are moving in the direction of the pull of gravity EXCEPT one...

a)

rain falling from the sky

b)

a jumping man from the roof

c)

a rollercoaster going down a hill

d)

a helium balloon rising into the sky

31.

When a force pushes an object, the object moves

a)

in the opposite direction of the force

b)

in the same direction as the force

c)

it would not move at all

d)

nothing changes

32.

An example of a push would be

a)

hammering a nail into a piece of wood

b)

spinning a hammer on the floor

c)

yanking a nail out of the wood

d)

cutting a nail with sharp scissors

33.

Matter is pulled to the ground by

a)

Space

b)

gravity

c)

air

d)

soil

34.

The force of attraction between any two objects that have mass is

a)

energy

b)

force

c)

speed

d)

gravity

35.

The best definition of force is

a)

a push or pull

b)

stored energy

c)

energy in motion

d)

anything that takes up space

36.

The force that one surface exerts on another when the two rub against each other is called

a)

mass

b)

energy

c)

friction

d)

inertia

37.

A force that opposes motion between two surfaces is called

a)

speed

b)

acceleration

c)

weight

d)

friction

38.

An object's resistance to change in motion is .

a)

motion

b)

inertia

c)

friction

d)

mass

39.

A push or pull in a certain direction is known as

a)

motion

b)

force

c)

speed

d)

friction

40.

How many laws of motion did Isaac Newton create?

a)

two

b)

Four

c)

three

d)

6,753,891,777

41.

Which of the following choices must velocity have?

a)

mass

b)

acceleration

c)

reference direction

d)

weight

42.

An object in motion remains in motion unless acted on by an unbalanced force.

a)

True

b)

never

c)

False

d)

sometimes

43.

To accelerate means to

a)

increase speed

b)

decrease speed

c)

change direction

d)

all of the above

44.

A force caused by objects rubbing together that slows moving objects is known as

a)

fulcrum

b)

load

c)

gravity

d)

friction

45.

The amount of matter in an object or a measure or the inertia of an object is

a)

solid

b)

mass

c)

heavy

d)

light

46.

The distance traveled per unit of time is called

a)

energy

b)

gravity

c)

speed

d)

force

47.

Gravity and friction are two kinds of

a)

inertia

b)

gravity

c)

forces

d)

masses

48.

The speed of an object with a specific direction is known as

a)

gravity

b)

speed

c)

velocity

d)

friction

49.

The strength of the force of gravity depends on

a)

the masses of the objects and their weights.

b)

the masses of the objects and their speeds.

c)

the weight of the objects and their speeds.

d)

the masses of the objects and the distance between them.

50.

Who discovered gravity?

a)

Edwin Hubble

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Thomas Jefferson