Forces and Motion Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. measure of both speed and direction of motion
  2. 6. force that opposes motion between two surfaces that are touching
  3. 7. measure of change in velocity of a moving object
  4. 10. tendency of an object to resist a change in its motion
  5. 11. force of attraction between two masses
  6. 15. overall force acting on an object that takes into account all of the individual forces acting on the object
  7. 16. length of the route between two points
Down
  1. 1. property of a moving object that makes it hard to stop; equal to the object’s mass times its velocity
  2. 2. SI unit for pressure
  3. 3. SI unit of force
  4. 4. upward force exerted by a fluid on any object placed in it
  5. 8. counter force exerted by an elastic material when it is stretched or compressed
  6. 9. path of one object around another, such as the path of the moon around Earth or of Earth around the sun
  7. 12. push or pull acting on an object
  8. 13. how quickly or slowly something moves; calculated as distance divided by time
  9. 14. quantity (such as velocity) that includes both size and direction; represented by an arrow