Jeopardy Words:

  1. The rate of change of velocity = ______
  2. The force of air pushing against a falling object = ______
  3. The ability to do work = ______
  4. A push or pull = ______
  5. A force that opposes motion = ______
  6. A force of attraction between masses = ______
  7. The international unit of force = ______
  8. The amount of matter an object contains = ______
  9. The energy of a moving object = ______
  10. The energy stored in an object = ______
  11. The distance travelled by an object, divided by the time = ______
  12. A force that is not opposed by an equal and opposite force = ______
  13. The speed of something in a given direction = ______
  14. When a force acts to move an object = ______
  15. Two forces that are equal in size and opposite in direction = ______
  16. The total force acting on an object = ______
  17. A measure of the force of gravity on an object’s mass = ______
  18. A force that acts in opposite direction to an action force = ______
  19. The acceleration of an object due to gravity on Earth = ______
  20. The formula to calculate speed = ______/ ______
  21. The result of an unbalanced force acting on an object = ______
  22. All of the combined space between two things = ______

Other Words (not included in jeopardy)

  1. The shortest space between start and end, regardless of the path travelled = ______
  2. “Objects in motion stay in motion until acted upon by an outside force.” = Newton’s ______Law
  3. “Acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. The greater the mass, the greater the force needed to move the object.” = Newton’s ______Law
  4. “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” = Newton’s ______Law
  5. Tendency for an object to stay still or keep moving (Newton’s 1st law) = ______
  6. A formula that means Newton’s 2nd law = ______
  7. If object A and object B are different sizes but similar shape, which will hit the ground first if you drop them off a building? ______30.Why? Because ______pulls on all objects with the same ______of ______, so they each ______to the ground equally.