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Force and Motion Test Review

Test is Thursday, November 19th!

Write an answer for each question.

  1. What is the formula for calculating speed?
  1. What is the formula for calculating average speed?
  1. A. On a motion graph, what is graphed on the X axis?

B. What is graphed on the Y axis?

Calculate the following problems. SHOW YOUR WORK AND REMEMBER TO INCLUDE UNITS FOR EACH PROBLEM!

  1. A cat traveled 81 meters in 9 seconds. What is its speed?
  1. A turtle traveled 600 meters in 3 hours. What is its speed?
  1. A car travels 312 kilometers in 12 hours. What is its speed?
  1. A girl runs a 10 kilometer race in 2 hours. What is her speed?
  1. On a trip in a car, you travel 60 kilometers for the first 2 hours, then stop for an hour, and the last 2 hours you travel 40 kilometers. What is the car’s average speed for the trip?
  1. Which has a greater speed, a hawk that travels 600 meters in 60 seconds or a tiny warbler that travels 60 meters in 5 seconds?
  1. Two drivers start at the same time to make a 100 kilometer trips. Driver 1 takes 2 hours to complete the trip. Driver 2 takes 3 hours to complete the trip, but stops for an hour at the halfway point. Which driver had a greater average speed for the whole trip?
  1. George flew from Austin to New York City, a distance of 560 km. The trip took 4 hours. What was the speed of the jet?
  1. A bamboo plant grows 15 centimeters in 4 hours. At what average speed does the plant grow?
  1. Complete the graph based on the information provided.

Label the X axis Time (seconds) and the Y axis for Distance (centimeters). Number each line 1 -10.

  • The first 3 seconds the turtle travels 2 centimeters
  • The turtle then rests for 4 seconds
  • The last 3 seconds the turtle travels 3 centimeters

Label the first time the turtle moved A and the second time B. Calculate the turtle’s speed for A and B.

How far did the turtle travel in 10 seconds?

What was the turtle doing between 7 and 10 seconds?

What was the turtle doing at 5 seconds?

What do the following units represent? Use D for distance, T for time, S for speed.

____ 14. 14 km____ 15. 6 hours_____ 16. 14 miles_____ 17. 1.4 m

_____ 18. 30 m/s_____ 19. 3.2 sec_____ 20. 6 cm/min_____ 21. 150 km/h

_____ 22. 34 min_____ 23. 25 feet_____ 24. mm/s_____ 25. 75 miles/hour

Match the following terms:

_____ 26. Motion
_____ 27. Reference point
_____ 28. Velocity
_____ 29. Force
_____ 30. Balanced force
_____ 31. Unbalanced force
_____ 32. Friction
_____ 33. Speed / a. the distance an object travels in one unit of time
b. a push or pull on an object
c. speed in a given direction
d. a place or object used for comparison to determine if an object is in motion
e. the state in which one object’s distance from another is changing
g. a nonzero net force that changes an object’s motion
h. the force that one object exerts on another when the two rub against each other
i. equal forces acting on an object in opposite directions