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Motion Vocab

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is motion?

a)

A change in position

b)

a change in speed

c)

A change in reference point

d)

going fast

2.

What is the formula for calculating speed?

a)
Speed = Distance - Time
b)
Speed = Distance / Time
c)
Speed = Time / Distance
d)
Speed = Distance + Time
3.

What is speed?

a)
Speed is the temperature of an object.
b)

Speed is the distance an object travels in a given amount of time.

c)
Speed is the force applied to an object.
d)
Speed is the amount of time taken to travel a distance.
4.

What is velocity?

a)

Velocity is the speed and direction of an object's motion.

b)
Velocity only refers to the speed of an object.
c)
Velocity is the same as speed.
d)

Velocity does not include the direction of an object's motion.

5.

An object travels the same distance for each period of time.

a)

Constant Speed

b)

Average Speed

c)

Acceleration

d)

Velocity

6.

Which line is the X Axis on a graph?

a)

The vertical line

b)

The horizontal line

7.

Which line is the Y Axis on a graph?

a)

The vertical line

b)

The horizontal line

8.

What does the Greek root "auto" mean?

a)

life

b)

self

c)

draw

d)

water

9.

What does the Greek root "photo" mean?

a)

picture

b)

heat

c)

same

d)

light

10.

What does the Greek root "graph" mean?

a)

same

b)

draw/write

c)

time

d)

science

11.

What does biography mean?

a)

spending a lifetime writing

b)

a story told with illustrations and photographs

c)

a written story about a person's life

d)

something written in two sections

12.

What is an autobiography?

a)

A story of a person's life written by someone else.

b)
A fictional story about a person's life.
c)
A collection of letters written by a famous person.
d)

A self-written account of one's life.