MOTION

I. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. A man travels 50 km northeast. He shows ___________.
a. Displacement
b. Distance
c. Scalar
d. Vector

2. A bird traveled 5km from its nest. It shows __________.
a. Displacement
b. Distance
c. Scalar
d. Vector

3. A car reached the mall with 50km/hr going north. What property of motion does it show?
a. Speed
b. Acceleration
c. Velocity
d. Interaction

4. A snail reach the shore with 10km/hr. What property of motion does it show?
a. Speed
b. Acceleration
c. Velocity
d. Interaction

5. From School, a man walked 10km to reach the hospital and another 5km to reach the park. What
is his reference point?
a. School
b. Hospital
c. Park
d. House

6. You are watching the flight of a small remote control model airplane as it flies in a haphazard
path over an empty football field. Which of the statements about the motion of the plane is
correct?
a. When the plane flies through the point from which it is started, the distance the plane has traveled
is zero.
b. When the plane flies through the point from which it started, the change in position for the plane
is twice the distance traveled.
c. The distance traveled by the plane can be a positive or a negative
d. The distance traveled by the plane can only be a positive number.

7. If acceleration decreases while the force stays the same then the mass must have:
a. Increased
b. Decreased
c. Stayed the same
d. Doubled

8. A downward motion and sudden stops of the hammer tighten the hammerhead. What Newtons
Law of Motion is being observed?
a. Law of Inertia
b. Law of Acceleration
c. Law of Interaction
d. Law of Stable Motion

9. A car traveled in 9 km/h/sec. What property of motion is shown?

a. Speed
b. Velocity
c. Acceleration
d. Interaction

10. When you lean against a wall, you exert a force on the wall and the wall simultaneously exerts an
equal and opposite force on you which is the reason why you dont topple over. What Newtons
Law of Motion explains this scenario?
a. Law of Inertia
b. Law of Acceleration
c. Law of Interaction
d. Law of Force

11. A car whizzes past you at a constant velocity of 400km/hr. What will happen to its acceleration?
a. The acceleration will increase.
b. The acceleration will decrease.
c. The acceleration will be zero
d. The acceleration will be negative.

12. A heavy object and a light object are dropped from the rest at the same time in a vacuum. The
heavier object will reach the ground
a. Before the lighter object
b. At the same time as the lighter object
c. After the lighter object
d. It depends on the shape of the object

13. A newscaster reported that a typhoon has a speed of 100 km/hr going north. The speed of the
typhoon represents ________.
a. Scalar
b. Vector
c. Distance
d. Displacement

14. The temperature of the room is 20
o
C. The temperature of the room represents
a. Scalar
b. Vector
c. Distance
d. Displacement

15. The mass of a falling sack is 50kg it reaches the ground with a speed of 10km/hr downward. The
mass of the sack is a _____ quantity
a. Scalar
b. Vector
c. Distance
d. Displacement