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Speed vs Velocity Formative

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Question 1
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Which of the following is a true statement about distance and displacement? Remember notes.

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Question 7
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What is velocity in relation to speed?

Question 8
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How is speed calculated?

Question 9
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If an object covers 100m in 20s, what is its speed? S=d/t

Question 10
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A car travels 120 km in 2 hours. What's its speed? S=d/t

Question 11
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Look at the distance-time graph above. What is the total distance travelled?

Question 12
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A student investigates the motion of a toy vehicle. The student graphs 40 seconds of data from the investigation.


Which statement best describes the motion of the toy vehicle during the first 30 seconds of the investigation?

Question 13
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A horse trainer records the distance a horse travels during three different trials.


What is the horse’s average speed? Speed = distance / time
Hint: Add the total distance and divide by total time. 27

Question 14
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A meteor moving 468 kilometers per minute travelled in a south-to-northward direction nearly colliding with Earth in 2013.

Which statement describes the meteor’s motion?

B. Displacement cannot be determined.
C. Distance is a scalar quantity, while displacement is a vector quantity.
Question 2
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Which statement accurately differentiates between speed and velocity?

Question 3
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A runner jogs 7 km south in 1 hour and then turns and jogs 14 km west in 2 hours. What is the runner's average speed for the entire journey?

Which of the following could represent the runner's average velocity for the entire journey?
A. 8 km/h west
B. 9 km/h
C. 7 km/h
D. 7 km/h southwest
Question 5
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If a runner completes one lap around a 400-meter track, what is the runner's displacement?

Question 6
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Three cars, shown below, are all traveling at a speed of 5 m/s, but only car E has a changing velocity. Car E has a changing velocity because it ______.