MS I Blue Book
Chapter 1 Study Guide
Name_______________________________
Hour________
Answer the questions clearly in your own words. The first page will be due the second day after it in initially assigned, the remainder is due the day of the quiz. Page numbers for each section of questions are listed.
Pages 6-15
1How do you know that an object is in motion ?
2What is a reference point ?
3How can reference points be confusing?
4Are you moving as you sit in science class?_________ Explain
5What is speed?
6Give 2 examples of speed.
7What is average speed ?
8If you bike 10 miles in 10 minutes, stop for 10 minutes, and then bike 30 miles in 40 minutes, what is your average speed? Show your work and/or explain.
9What is instantaneous speed ?
10What is velocity ?
11Give a real-world example of why velocity is important (hint: see the first paragraph on this text book page).

12When graphing speed, what do you put on the x-axis of the graph (the one at the bottom)?_____________ What do you put on the y-axis?___________________
13What is slope ?
14What does the slope of a line tell us about the speed of the object being graphed?
15What is the speed represented by a very steep (almost upright) line? Describe in your own words and explain.
16What would the graph of an object that isn’t moving (like the jogger in “segment 2” on page 15)?
Pg 22-27
1What is acceleration ?
2What 2 things could change to change an object’s acceleration (see your answer for #10 from the first section)?
3Give 2 examples of something increasing speed to accelerate.
4Give 2 examples of something decreasing speed to accelerate.
5Why is decreasing speed “acceleration?”
6Give 2 examples of change in direction resulting in acceleration.
7Give an example of something that accelerates, but doesn’t change speed.

8What is the formula for the acceleration of something going in a straight line?
9If a car can go from 1-100 meters per second (m/s) steadily, in 20 seconds, what is the rate of acceleration? Show your work and/or explain.
10In your own words, explain m/s 2 – if you can’t, ask me in class during this lecture/discussion.
11Describe what a graph of speed vs. time would look like for something accelerating in 1 direction.
12Describe what a graph of distance vs. time would look like for something accelerating in 1 direction.
13Fill in the graphic organizer below:
Acceleration refers to . . .
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For the quiz, make sure you . . .
Can define the following: motion, reference point, speed, velocity, slope, acceleration, x-axis, y axis
Know how to calculate the average speed of an person or object
Know what a graph looks like when an object is going slow, fast, or not at all.
Can graph speed on a distance vs. time graph and acceleration on a distance vs. time graph
Understand the difference between what speed and acceleration look like on a graph
Can graph acceleration on a speed vs. time graph