Force and Motion Vocab

3. The force exerted on a body by gravity.
5. Newton’s _______ Law of motion states that for every action in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction.
8. The push or pull on an object.
10. How fast something is moving and in what direction it is going.
12. __________ is the shortest distance from the initial to the final position.
15. The length between objects or points without regard for direction.
17. ________ is the force that resists motion.

1. The Law of Conservation of __________ states that before and after two objects collide they have the same amount of momentum.
2. Fall The tennis ball that I dropped from the latter was at ____ _____.
4. ________ keeps us from floating away from Earth.
6. A change in position of an object
7. The ______ of the car is 80 mi/hr.
9. The tendency of objects in motion to stay in motion.
11. Newton’s ________ Law of motion states that the force on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration.
13. The car _________ from 20 mi/hr to 40 mi/hr.
14. Newton’s ________ Law of motion states that an object will not change its motion unless a force acts on it.
16. Resistance The force that acts in the opposite direction to an object moving through the air.