Calculating Motion
  • 1. A bird travels 300 meters in 300 seconds. What is the birds speed?
A) 20 m/s
B) 10 m/s
C) 1 m/s
D) 0.1 m/s
  • 2. The seed from a dandelion covers 30 meters in 15 seconds. What is the seed's speed?
A) 20 m/s
B) 2 m/s
C) 0.2 m/s
D) 10 m/s
  • 3. A ball rolls down a hill for 10 seconds and covers 40 meters. What was its speed?
A) 20 m/s
B) 40 m/s
C) 4 m/s
D) 0.4 m/s
  • 4. A hurricane is 100 miles off the coast of Florida. It is traveling at 25 mph. How long will it take to reach Florida?
A) 10 hours
B) 0.25 hours
C) 2500 hours
D) 4 hours
  • 5. The waves of an earthquake traveled at a speed of 250 m/s. If it took the waves 10 seconds to reach the city of St. Louis, how far away was the focus of the earthquake?
A) 2500 m
B) 2.5 m
C) 25 m
D) 250 m
  • 6. What is the acceleration of a truck that starts at rest and after 10 s, is going 30 m/s?
A) -3m/s/s
B) 1 m/s/s
C) 3 m/s/s
D) 30 m/s/s
  • 7. What is the acceleration of a scooter that starts at 10 mph and changes to 20 mph over 10 hours?
A) 5 m/s/s
B) 10 m/s/s
C) 2 m/s/s
D) 1m/s/s
  • 8. What is the acceleration of a truck that was going 60 m/s then hit a brick wall, and stopped in a time of 1 s?
A) 60 m/s/s
B) -60 m/s/s
C) 10 m/s/s
D) -6m/s/s
  • 9. How much did the velocity of a parachutist change if her acceleration was 10 m/s/s over a time of 10 s?
A) 1000m
B) 20 m
C) 10m
D) 100 m
  • 10. How much time would it take for a rocket accelerating at 10 m/s/s to change its velocity from 20 m/s to 30 m/s?
A) 1 s
B) 10 s
C) 5 s
D) 0.1 s
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