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Unit 1- Speed and Velocity

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is velocity?

a)

The quickness of an object.

b)

The location of an object.

c)

Acceleration.

d)

Speed in a specific direction.

2.

Alex travels 100 km in 5hrs. Find his average speed in km/h

a)

5km/hr

b)

10km/hr

c)

50km/hr

d)

20km/hr

3.

Velocity is both ____ and _____.

a)

Speed and direction.

b)

Direction and mass.

c)

Volume and density.

d)

Direction and magnitude.

4.

1. Which of the following statements about speed and velocity is correct?

a)

Velocity only describes an object’s rate of motion.

b)

Speed describes how an object is changing its velocity.

c)

Speed and velocity both describe how an object is speeding up.

d)

Only velocity includes the direction an object is traveling.

5.

What does this graph represent?

a)

Constant Speed.

b)

Acceleration.

c)

No movement.

6.

What does this graph represent?

a)

Constant speed.

b)

Acceleration.

c)

No movement.

7.

How do you find resultant vectors if two vectors are going in the same direction?

a)

You add them together and keep the direction.

b)

You subtract them and keep the direction of the larger vector.

8.

What are the 3 methods to finding the resultant vectors when the vectors are perpendicular to each other?

a)

Tail-to-Tip.

b)

Tail-to-Tail.

c)

Pythagorean Theorem.

d)

Subtract and keep direction of larger vector.

9.

What is frame of reference?

a)

Straight line distance from the initial position to the final position.

b)

The rate at which a distance is covered.

c)

How the position changes relative to the starting point.

d)

The object or background used to determine motion and its direction.

10.

What is kinematics?

a)

A quantity divided by time (how quickly something happens).

b)

A physical point that can be used to determine if an object is moving.

c)

The science of describing the motion of objects.

d)

A change in an object's position.