Mass and Weight

Comparing the concepts of mass and weight, one is basic—fundamental— depending only on the internal makeup of an object and the number and kind of atoms that compose it. The concept that is fundamental is

• Mass

• Weight

The concept that additionally depends on location in a gravitational field is

• Mass

• Weight

___________ is a measure of the amount of matter in an object and only depends on the number and kind of atoms that compose it.

• Mass

• Weight

________ is related to the gravitational force acting on the object.

• Mass

• Weight

__________depends on an object’s location.

• Mass

• Weight

____________ does not depend on an objects location.

• Mass

• Weight

A stone would have the same __________ whether it is on the surface of Earth or on the surface of the moon.

• Mass

• Weight

On the moon’s surface, where gravity is only about one sixth of Earth gravity (mass) (weight) (both the mass and the weight) of the stone would be the same as on Earth.

• Mass

• Weight

• both the mass and the weight

While mass and weight are not the same, they are ___________ proportional to each other.

• Directly

• Inversely

In the same location, twice the mass has _________ the weight.

• Twice

• Half