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This document provides a worksheet on forces for an 8th grade science class. The worksheet contains questions to test students' understanding of balanced and unbalanced forces through examples of pushing and pulling forces. Students are asked to identify characteristics of the forces in different diagrams, define terms related to forces and motion, calculate average speed, and provide examples of pushing and pulling forces.

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Force Problems With Answers

This document provides a worksheet on forces for an 8th grade science class. The worksheet contains questions to test students' understanding of balanced and unbalanced forces through examples of pushing and pulling forces. Students are asked to identify characteristics of the forces in different diagrams, define terms related to forces and motion, calculate average speed, and provide examples of pushing and pulling forces.

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Name: ______________________________________ Date: _________________ Period: _____

8th Grade Science


Forces Worksheet 1
Use the Venn diagram to compare and contrast balanced and
unbalanced forces.

Circle the best answer:

1. The forces shown above are PUSHING / PULLING forces.


2. The forces shown above are WORKING TOGETHER / OPPOSITE FORCES.
3. The forces are EQUAL / NOT EQUAL.
4. The forces DO / DO NOT balance each other.
5. The resultant force is 1000 N TO THE RIGHT / 1000 N TO THE LEFT

/ZERO.
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6. There IS / IS NO motion.
7. The forces shown above are PUSHING / PULLING forces.
8. The forces shown above are WORKING TOGETHER / OPPOSITE FORCES.
9. The forces are EQUAL / NOT EQUAL.
10. The forces DO / DO NOT balance each other.
11. The stronger force is pulling to the RIGHT / LEFT.
12. The weaker force is pulling to the RIGHT / LEFT.
13. Motion is to the RIGHT / LEFT.
Use your notebook to answer the following questions. Write the best
answer on the line provided.

_____ 14. When you look out your window and see a skateboarder in
front of your
house, and two minutes later you look up and see her
several houses away,
you can use this information to describe her ____.
a. speed b. velocity c. change in position d.
acceleration 2
_____ 15. It takes 1.0 h to drive 20 km through a city during rush hour.
Your ____
speed is 20 km/h.
a. constant b. instantaneous c. average d.
accelerating

_____ 16. If an object starts to accelerate, ____.


a. a balanced force is acting on it c. velocity is acting on it
b. gravity is acting on it d. an unbalanced force is
acting on it
_____ 17. When forces are balanced, the total force ____.
a. is greater than the sum of the forces c. is negative
b. is zero d. is equal to the largest
force
_____ 18. A soccer ball takes 20 s to roll 10 m. What is the average
speed of the ball?
a. 200 m/s b. 2 m/s c. 5 m/s d. 0.5 m/s
_____ 19. When an object is at rest, what is its speed?
a. 2 m/s b. 1 m/s c. 3 m/s d. 0 m/s
_____ 20. A force is which one of these?
a. a push b. a push or pull c. a pull d. none of these
_____ 21. Force is measured in which units?
a. kilograms b. newtons c. degrees d. m/s 2

Give two examples of a pushing force AND two examples of a


pulling force:
Pushing Force Pulling Force
1-________________________ 1-________________________

2-________________________ 2-________________________

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