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Bill Nye Motion Worksheet

Watch the Bill Nye video and fill in the blanks below:

1. Listen carefully to the opening song and fill in the blank:

Inertia is a property of _________________.

2.What force was holding the anvil up? _____________________________

3.What force is pulling the anvil down? ______________________________

4. When he flicked the card where did the coin go to? _______________________________

6. Whether moving or sitting still everything has ______________________

7. The men who were trying to move the boxes read that :

Nothing gets moved unless it is P______________ or P___________________

Newtons Three Laws of Motion Bill goes through the three laws of motion. Fill in the blanks.

Newton’s 1st Law

8. Things at rest, stay at _______________

9. Thing in motion stay in _________________ unless acted upon by a outside force.

Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion

10. Force = _________________ times acceleration.

Newtons 3rd Law of Motion

11. For every action there is an equal and opposite ___________________________

_____ 12. What happened to the apple’s weight as the plane dived toward the ground?

A) got larger or heavier B) got less or weightless

_____ 13. What happened to the apple’s weight as the plane rose up towards the sky?

A) got larger or heavier B) got less or weightless

_____ 14. What do we measure mass in? A) Meters B) Liters C) Grams

 15. Listen to the song and fill in the blank: We are all in ____________________________.
After the motion video solve the following brain teasers

What do the following units represent? Use D for distance, T for time, S for speed

1. 4 km _____ 2. 16 hours _____ 3. 15 m _____ 4. 200.5 mm ______

6. 30 m/s _____ 7. 3.2 sec ______ 8. 34 min _____ 9. 150 km/h _____

Solve each problem! Be sure to show your work!

Speed = _distance_ Average = _Total Distance_

Time Total Time

10. Haley the hummingbird can fly from a pansy flower to a hibiscus flower 20 meters away in 5 seconds.
What is her speed?

11. How many times could Haley fly between the two flowers in 1 minute (60 seconds)?

12. Gwen Goldfish, a speed swimmer, loves to race around the park’s pond, which is 1 kilometer around.
If she can swim 20 laps around the track in 2 hours, what is her average speed?

13. It takes Seymour, a slimy slug, 20 minutes to travel from his favorite bush to the local trash can (a
distance of 30 meters), how far can he travel in 1 hour (60 minutes)?

14. At exactly 2:00 pm, Speedy the hermit crab crawls onto a meter stick starting at the 10 cm mark. If he
reaches the 60 cm mark at exactly 2:10 pm, what is his speed?

15. If it takes Leaping Louie 5 minutes to jump 3 blocks, how long will it take for him to jump 15 blocks?