What do you see in the pictures? Write at least 3 sentences.
What is a force?
What does gravity do?
What is friction?
Why does a cat on a sled move down a hill?
How is energy being transferred in the picture?
The text says that energy cannot be made or destroyed. What law is that?
What is an example of energy transfer?
What three ways can thermal energy transfer?
Why are conduction and radiation different?
What does friction change kinetic energy into?
When sand dunes are made, what does the wind transfer energy to?
What is an example of an energy transformation?
Why can sports help us understand physics?
Once it is in motion, what does an object like a soccer ball have a natural tendency to do?
Swimmers wearing full-body suits that reduced underwater friction were able to swim faster than other swimmers.
What evidence from the passage supports this statement?
What are some things cyclists do to reduce friction?
What does the author explain in this passage?
The end of the passage states that without the forces of physics, every time you kicked a soccer ball or jumped on a bike, the ball and the bike would keep going, forever.
Why would the ball and the bike keep going forever?
Which sport does the passage use to examine physics?
What is work?
Why does carrying furniture up four flights of stairs require twice as much work as carrying furniture up two flights of stairs?
What does the author describe in the passage?
Imagine three different soccer players are shooting at the goal. Player A has a lightweight ball and is close to the goal, Player B has a heavy ball and is close to the goal, and Player C has a heavy ball and is far from the goal.
Which player will need the most energy to score a goal, and which player will need the least energy? Why?
When will something not move?
When unbalanced forces are acting on a object, which force moves the object?
Why is wood spoon good for cooking?
Read the following sentence: "Newton suggested that objects like the soccer ball have a natural tendency to keep moving. The only reason they stop, he believed, is because an unbalanced force acts on them."
What does the word tendency mean?
Based on the information in the passage, how can friction be described?
What is the passage mainly about?
A soccer ball will travel a greater distance the harder it is kicked. What evidence from the text best supports this statement?
Read the following sentences: "Everyone knows that kicking a soccer ball causes it to roll across the grass. But what makes this happen? What is required to make the ball move faster?"
What does required mean?
What is the difference between passing the ball to a teammate and shooting a goal?