Download Fourth Six Weeks TEST Study Guide 2015 What can you tell about

Fourth Six Weeks TEST Study Guide
2015
1. What can you tell about the speed of a thing
from a distance over time graph?
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2. What is the formula for speed?
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3. How does an inclined plane reduce the
effort needed to raise a load?
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6. A student places a toy car at the top
of a ramp and releases it. The
student records the distance the car
has traveled at different increments of
time. The student’s data are
displayed in the following table.
Time
Distance
(seconds) (centimeters)
1
9
2
18
3
27
4
36
5
45
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What is the toy car’s average speed?
4. How does a pulley reduce the effort needed
to raise a load?
Was the toy car’s speed constant?
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5.
Distance vs. Time
What was Mary’s average speed?
What was John’s average speed?
7. The graph above shows the motion of a
motorcycle rider. What was the average
What was Mary’s speed between seconds 2
and 3?
What was John’s speed between seconds 2
and 3?
speed of the motorcycle?
8. Calculate the speed:
Distance
Time
16. What does a curved line on a distance
Speed
vs time graph mean?
22 m 11 sec
400 km
8 hr
60 cm 15 sec
1.50 m 10 min
88.8 km
4 sec
96 cm
6 sec
17. The force that opposes the motion of
two surfaces sliding past each other is
called _______________________.
18. What is a force?
9. How does a single, fixed pulley change
the effort force needed to lift a load?
19. _____________________ is an object's
tendency to resist changing its motion.
10. What force holds the planets in their
orbits?
20. John is pulling a rope to the left with a
force of 30N, Michael is pulling to the
11. What characteristic do all of the inner
planets have in common?
right with a force of 45N.
The rope will move right with a force of
15N.
a. True
12. When an inclined plane gets longer, the
effort force gets __________________.
13. When an inclined plane gets steeper,
b. False
21. What has NASA used to learn about our
solar system?
the effort force gets _______________.
14. What does a horizontal line on a
distance vs time graph mean?
22. Describe how the shuttle program differs
from the space programs that came
15. What does a straight line on a distance
vs time graph mean?
before it: