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  Forces and movement

1. What would be a good way to slow down on a bicycle?
Drag your feet along the ground
Pedal faster
Ask someone to give you a push

2. What would be a good way to speed up on a slide?
Hold onto the sides
Put your feet down
Wear slippery clothes

3. Which of these things could you change the shape of by pushing?
A sandcastle
A metal toy car
A glass cup

4. Pushes and pulls are examples of ...
forces
stretches
twists

5. When you push a toy car, it eventually stops. This is due to something called ...
friction
gravity
twisting

6. With the same push, would a heavy car travel further or less far than a light car?
Further
Less far
They'd both travel the same distance

7. On which track would a sledge move the fastest?
A flat track
A gently sloping track
A steeply sloping track

8. What else might affect the speed of a sledge on a track?
The colour of the track
The surface of the track
The name of the track

9. What is the best description of what forces do?
They stop things moving
They start things moving
They make things speed up, slow down or change direction or shape

10. What is the force called that makes things fall when we drop them?
Friction
Gravity
Stretching

 


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