Understanding Forces and Motion - Questions

Competency Goal 4: The learner will conduct investigations and use appropriate technologies to build an understanding of forces and motion in technological designs.

Questions:

1. The push or pull that causes an object to move, stop, or change direction.

2.  The use of force to move an object a distance is__________.

3.  The force that pulls objects towards each other is____________.

4.  What is the property of matter that keeps it moving in a straight line or keeps it at rest?

5.  Two people lean toawrd each other pressing hands together. Neither person changes position. This is an example of ____________.

6.  A force that opposes or acts against motion when two surfaces rub together is ____________.

7.  Pushing or pulling between magnetic poles is an example of ____________.

8.  A person standing completely still has ____________ energy.

9.  One opposing force being greater than another is an example of a/an ____________ force.

10.  An objects speed in a particular direction is ____________.