Trio Test # 2 Questions

Motion - Forces
1. Which scenario best describes motion?
a. a toy train in position 4 on a number line
b. a race track that is 100 meters long
c. a ball rolling from point A to point B
d. a student living 150 miles from Chicago

2. What is required in order to determine whether or not an object moves?

a. a reference point
b. Distance
c. Displacement
d. standard units

3. Sudhi is studying the motion of a toy car. She places the car in the middle of a ramp and releases
it. Which best describes the reference point in this scenario?
a. the top of the ramp
b. the bottom of the ramp
c. the ending position of the car
d. the starting position of the car

4. A toy car is placed at 0 on a number line. It moves 9 cm to the left, then 4 cm to the right, and
then 6 cm to the left. What is the total distance the toy car traveled?
a. 1 cm
b. 5 cm
c. 11 cm
d. 19 cm
5. Nancy and Hiyang are training for a race. They entered some of their training notes in a chart.
Which information should be added to the chart in order to find out who ran a greater distance?

a. the time spent running each day

b. the reference point used each day
c. the units used to measure the distance each day
d. the location used by the runners each day

6. Which characteristic does an object with a constant acceleration always have?

a. changing velocity
b. constant velocity
c. fast speed
d. slow speed

7. A car has a momentum of 20,000 kg • m/s. What would the car’s momentum be if its velocity
doubles?
a. 10,000 kg • m/s
b. 20,000 kg • m/s
c. 40,000 kg • m/s
d. 80,000 kg • m/s

8. The law of conservation of momentum states that, if left alone, what happens to the total
momentum of two interacting objects that make up a system?
a. it increases over time
b. it remains the same
c. It eventually becomes zero
d. changes based on how they collide

9. Which formula can be used to express the law of conservation of momentum, where p =
momentum?
a. pi = pf
b. pi > pf
c. pi < pf
 d. pi ≠ pf
10. Which units are used to measure force?
a. Newtons
b. Feet
c. Miles
d. Grams

11. Jill is pushing a box across the floor. Which represents the upward force perpendicular to the
floor?
a. Fp
b. Ff
c. fFN
d. Fg

12. Which force best represents Fg?

a. using a dolly to push a box to another location
b. two children pulling apart a wishbone
c. a group of dogs pulling a dogsled across the ice
d. two people pushing a broken-down car up the road

13. According to Newton’s first law of motion, when will an object at rest begin to move?
a. when its inertia decreases to zero
b. when an unbalanced force acts upon it
c. when the action and reaction forces are equal
d. when two equal and opposite forces act upon it
14. Two people push on the same door from opposite sides as shown. A man pushes on a door from
the left. A woman pushes on the door from the right. They will only see the door move when

a. both people exert the same force so that the forces are unbalanced.
b. neither person exerts a force on the door so that the net force is zero.
c. one person exerts more force than the other so that the forces are unbalanced.
d. both people exert the same force so that the forces are balanced.

15. According to Newton’s second law of motion, what is a force equal to?
a. acceleration divided by the mass
b. mass times acceleration
c. mass divided by acceleration
d. inertia times acceleration

16. A force of 5 N accelerates an object. The object’s mass is 50 g. What is the acceleration of the
object? (Formula: F=ma)
a. 0.01 m/s2
b. 0.1 m/s2
c. 10 m/s2
d. 100 m/s2

17. Action and reaction forces are described by which of Newton’s laws of motion?
a. first
b. second
c. third
d. fourth
18. Explain Newton's third law of motion and how it relates to action and reaction forces.
Laura sees a horse pulling a buggy. She wonders how it can accelerate if the action of the horse
pulling the cart would cause an equal and opposite reaction of the cart pulling on the horse.
Which explanation best answers her question?
a. The net forces exerted on the horse and cart are the same, but the action force is larger.
b. The net forces exerted on the horse and cart are the same, but they are in the same
direction.
c. The net forces exerted on the horse and cart are not the same, so the two forces cancel
out.
d. The net forces exerted on the horse and cart are not the same, so they are not balanced
forces.