Distance and Displacement Worksheet
A Grade 3 science worksheet to help students understand the basic concepts of distance and displacement through various exercises.
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Distance and Displacement
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability.
1. is how far an object has traveled in total.
2. is how far an object is from its starting point, and in what direction.
3. If you walk around a block and come back to where you started, your displacement is .
1. Distance can be a negative number.
True
False
2. Displacement always includes a direction.
True
False
1. A squirrel runs 5 meters to a tree, then climbs up 2 meters. What is the total distance the squirrel traveled?
2. If you walk 10 steps forward and then 10 steps backward, what is your displacement from your starting point?
1. Which of these tells you the shortest path from start to finish?
Distance
Displacement
Speed
Time
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