Force WordsearchName______

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Directions:

  1. Answer each question and then find the word in the puzzle grid.
  2. Line out the word, do not black it out.
  3. There are at least four letters per word.
  4. There are no plurals and no words within words.
  5. When all of the words are lines out a message will remain, I HOPE.
  6. The blank spaces in the grid are spaces between words in the hidden message.
  7. Write out the hidden message under clue 48.

Clues

  1. He discovered that the force on a spring and the stretch of a spring are directly proportional. ______
  2. That which causes things to speed up, slow down, or change direction.______
  3. The product of mass and velocity.______
  4. The most familiar of the three non-contact forces.______
  5. The opposite side of a triangle divided by the hypotenuse of a triangle.______
  6. One of these has both size and direction.______
  7. If you push on an object three times harder, its ______will be three times as much.
  8. Newton’s ______Law is illustrated by the air hockey puck’s motion.
  9. Archimedes’ Principle says that the weight of the ______water equals the weight reduction of the object placed in the water.
  10. The product of force times the distance from the pivot point.______
  11. Another of the non-contact forces. It is related to direction.______
  12. A block and tackle.______
  13. A unit of force was named after him.______
  14. It has size, but not direction. Mass is an example.______
  15. One ______of fresh water has a mass of one gram.
  16. The force which presses two surfaces together and creates friction. ______
  17. To measure the effect of gravity.______
  18. He discovered that the planets moved in elliptical orbits.______
  19. All objects moving in circles are pulled towards the ______of the circle in which they move.
  20. Get a long enough ______and one could move the earth.
  21. He believed in experimentation and as a result found himself in conflict with the Catholic Church. ______
  22. The ______speed is found by dividing distance by time.
  23. Newton’s First Law states that an object will remain at ______
  24. or move at a ______speed
  25. in a ______(2 words)
  26. A metric unit of force, but smaller than a Newton.______
  27. Two forces which cancel each other must be ______
  28. and ______
  29. This unit is repeated within the units for acceleration.______
  30. Newton’s ______Law is illustrated by the fact that ten people pushing on a car can produce more acceleration than two people pushing a bus.
  31. This force is frequently wasteful because it produces heat. ______
  32. When all the forces acting on an object add up to zero, the object is said to be in ______.
  33. Another of the non-contact forces. It is more noticeable in the winter because it is so dry. ______
  34. In the flea experiment with the air puck, the acceleration was seen to be ______proportional to the force,
  35. But inversely proportional to the ______.
  36. A falling object gains 10 m/s of ______in every second of free fall.
  37. Newton’s Third Law is sometimes called the law of ______
  38. And ______.
  39. Newton’s ______Law is illustrated by a gun shooting a bullet.
  40. A unit of mass which weighs about 0.0022 pounds. ______
  41. The ______of friction, when multiplied by the normal force gives the force of friction.
  42. An ellipse is simply an ______.
  43. An ______plane or a ramp makes it easier to lift objects.
  44. In Kepler’s Laws another word for average was ______
  45. The ______of pulleys is the number of times easier it is to lift an object into the air.
  46. The ______of a pendulum will double if the string length is quadrupled.
  47. A fake force often felt when you are spun in a circle is the ______force,
  48. Archimedes studied the ______force.