Forces & Motion Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Measures how fast an object is moving in a given amount of time.
  2. 4. Steepness of a line; rise / run
  3. 8. The ability to do work.
  4. 11. How far an object moves
  5. 12. The line or course along which something moves.
  6. 14. The rate at which the velocity of an object changes.
  7. 17. The energy used when a force moves an object.
  8. 20. When object is slowing down
  9. 21. The change in position of an object.
  10. 22. The rate at which work is done.
Down
  1. 1. The speed and direction of an object’s motion.
  2. 3. When object is speeding up
  3. 5. Force of gravity on an object at the surface of a planet.
  4. 6. Amount of matter (atoms) in an object.
  5. 7. The tendency of an object to resist any change in motion.
  6. 9. Equation when object makes a right angle triangle to find displacement.
  7. 10. A push or a pull that acts on an object.
  8. 13. Force that pulls objects toward each other. Makes things fall and gives things weight.
  9. 15. A rate in which all the forces on an object balance each other.
  10. 16. Force that one surface puts on another object when the surfaces rub against each other
  11. 18. A device that changes the direction or the amount of force needed to do
  12. 19. The exact location of an object.