This document contains a Jeopardy-style game about motion and forces. It includes questions about key concepts like speed, velocity, acceleration, forces, and experimental design. The questions cover calculating and comparing speeds and accelerations, identifying forces and their effects, and describing motion graphs. The game tests understanding of foundational physics topics related to describing and analyzing different types of motion.

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JEOPARDY!
Describing Motion

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Speed
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Force &
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Inquiry Misc.

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The unit to measure
force is
A. kilograms
B. Newtons

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A vector is a
quantity that has
A. position and distance
B. speed
C. size and direction

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If you find a runner’s speed by
finding out how fast it took them
to run an entire race, you are
measuring the runner’s
A. instantaneous speed.
B. average speed.
C. average vector.
D. instantaneous position.

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If you describe the
location of the ball field
by saying it is right next
to McDonalds, you are
using McDonalds as this.

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How would decreasing the time it
takes you to run a certain distance
affect your speed. Why?

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To find the speed of an
object, you need
a. time and direction
b. time and distance

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John ran a race running 100
m in 50 s. The speed is
a. 500 m/s
b. 2 m/s
c. 0.5 m/s
d. 5000m/s

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What do you need to
know to describe the
velocity of an object?

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Sam and Tonya run with the
same constant speed but in
opposite directions. The girls
have
A. the same position.
B. different acceleration.
C. different speeds.
D. different velocities.

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Maggie and Trevor left school at
the same time. Maggie lives
farther away than Trevor, but she
and Trevor arrived at their homes
at the same time. Compare their
speeds.

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Which of the following
describes an object
accelerating?
A. An object speeds up
B. An object slows down
C. An object changes direction
D. All of the above

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A car goes from 5 m/s
to 35 m/s in 6 seconds.
What is its
acceleration?

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When a car speeds up,
in physics, the term is
A. positive acceleration
B. negative acceleration.
C. neutral acceleration
D. deceleration.

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The tortoise ran the race on a
circular track and the hare ran the
race on a straight track. The
tortoise maintains a steady speed,
but the hare’s speed increases.
Describe the acceleration each
girl experiences. Be sure to use
the concepts of velocity and
direction in your explanation.

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During the egg bungee jump,
describe how the two main forces
caused your egg to have both
positive and negative
acceleration during the egg jump.

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The resistance of an
object to change it’s
speed or the direction of
its motion is
A. inertia
B. acceleration

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If the motion of an object
does not change, there
are:
A. no forces.
B. negative forces.
C. balanced forces.
D. unbalanced forces.

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Jack pulls a bike with a force of 20
N, and Jill pulls back from the
opposite side with a force of 25 N.
Ignore friction. What will happen
to the bike?
Daily Double!!!

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What forces were
acting on the egg
during the egg bungee
jump and how did they
affect the speed of the
egg?

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What tool measures
force and what is the
unit of
measurement?

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Variables that must be
kept the same to
reduce sources of
error are
A. trials
B. constants

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The variable that is measured.
It responds to whatever the
experimenter changed in an
experiment is
A. hypothesis
B. independent variable
C. Dependent variable
D. constant variable

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What do you call the
number of times you
repeat an experiment?

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Tell me a correctly
worded hypothesis
when given a scenario
by the teacher.

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When given a scenario
by the teacher, list the
IV, DV, and 2
constants.

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A flat, or horizontal
line on a distance-time
graph means that the
speed is
A. decreasing
B. Zero

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Describe the difference
between instantaneous
speed and average
speed.

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Give me an example of
a type of motion.

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The car stopped along
the way. When did this
happen? Explain how
you know.

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Looking at the graph
on the board, what was
the car’s average
speed over the 50
seconds shown?