Motion Unit Study Guide
The Motion Unit Test will cover the following concepts:
Analyzing and Interpreting Motion Graphs
Calculating Motion
Answer the question, and the next slide after each question shows the correct answer, and thinking
behind that answer.
Calculating Motion:
Practice:
A baseball is thrown a distance of 20 meters. What is its speed if it takes 0.5 seconds to cover the
distance?
How much time does it take for a bird flying at a speed of 45 kilometers per hour to travel a distance of
1,800 kilometers?
A comet is cruising through the solar system at a speed of 50,000 kilometers per hour for 4 hours time.
What is the total distance traveled by the comet during this time?
Analyzing and Interpreting Motion Graphs:
The examples below are what you are expected to know, make sure that you know, and understand the
key.
Use the picture below, and find the correct story that goes with the distance and time graph:
a. An object is moving forward, then stops,
moves forward at a faster rate, stops
again, then moves backward to the
beginning.
b. An object moves backward, then moves
forward, then stops, then moves
forward, then stops again until the end.
c. An object is speeding up, then moves a
constant rate, then speeds up again,
moves at a constant rate, then slows
down to stop.
d. An object moves up a hill, then stops,
moves up another hill, stops again, then
moves down the hill.