Gravity for Kids

What is gravity?

• A force
• Energy
• A push
• All of them

Look at the picture.  Is the force of gravity on the boy a push or a pull? 

• Pull
• Push

Without gravity we would________. 

• Float away
• Stay in the ground
• Nothing would happen.
• I don't know

Which statement about gravity is true?

• Gravity causes objects to pull towards one another.

• Gravity causes objects to push away from each other.

• Gravity only takes place between planets.

• The moon doesn't have any gravity.

The law of universal gravitation is credited to whom? 

• Einstein 
• Galileo
• Darwin
• Newton 

Why a ball falls to the ground?

• Earth's force of gravity is GREATER than the ball's, so the ball gets attracted to the ground. 
• Earth's force of gravity is LESS than the ball's, so the ball gets attracted to the ground. 

A brick and a pencil are dropped at the same time from the same height. Which one would hit the ground first?

• Brick

• Pencil

• Both would hit at the same time

Gravity attracts all objects towards one another. 

• True
• False 

As distance between objects increases the pull of gravity...

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

A person weights _______ on the moon than they do on Earth.

• the same
• more
• less