Forces & Motion Vocabulary
Across
- 3. the location of something relative to something else
- 5. a measurement that has both size and direction
- 7. a force that a person or thing applies to an object
- 9. a statement describing what always happens under certain conditions in nature
- 12. SI unit of distance
- 14. the length of the route between two points
- 15. a measure of the change in velocity of a moving object
- 17. a change in position
- 20. a combination of all the individual forces acting on an object
Down
- 1. the ability of a material to return to its original shape after benign stretched or compressed
- 2. the tendency of an object to resist a change in its motion
- 4. a force of attraction between things that have mass
- 6. a push or pull acting on an object
- 8. law stating that gravity is a force of attraction between all objects in the universe and that the strength of gravity is greater or distances between objects are shorter
- 9. how fast or slow something moves
- 10. a force that opposes motion between any surfaces that are touching
- 11. the SI unit of force
- 13. the measure of both speed and direction
- 16. a property of a moving object that makes it hard to stop
- 18. the ability to do work
- 19. path of one object around another, such as the path of the moon around the Earth