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Force & Motion
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Displacement | the difference between the initial or starting, position nd the final position |
| Speed | A measure of the distance an object travels in a given amount measure of distance in given amount. |
| Velocity | The speed and direction of a moving object |
| Vector | A quantity that has both magnitude and direction. |
| Reference point | The starting point you choose to describe the location, or position of an object |
| Position | An object's distance and direction from a reference point |
| Motion | The process of changing a position. |
| Inertia | An object's ability to resist any change in motion. |
| Newton's third law | When an object applies a force on another object, the second object applies a force of the same strength on the first object, but the force is in the opposite direction |
| Force Pair | The force two objects apply to each other |
| Normal force | The force two objects apply to each other |
| Elastic collision | When colliding objects bounce off each other |
| Inelastic collision | If objects collide and stick together |
| Non-contact force | One object applys force without touching |
| Gravity | amount of matter in an object |
| Field | Region of space without physical lunatics |
| Weight | Gravitational force exerted on an object |
| Population | The members of species living together |
| resources | supplies environments need for necessary survival |
| carrying capacity | max capacities for a given species |
| urbanization | previous natural areas turned into cities |
| uniformitarianism | processes that occurred today, occurred past |
| fossils | the remains of ancient living things |