Gravity

What is gravity?

• A property of matter that states that it will remain unchanged unless acted upon by an outside force.

• An attractive force between two objects

• When two magnets pull together.

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All objects with ________ exert gravitational force.

• Weight

• Energy

• Mass

• Power

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The more massive the object, the ______________ gravity exerted by the object.

• Less

• More

• Same amount

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What keeps our solar system from losing its orbital patterns?

• The sun's inertia

• The planet's gravitational pull

• The sun's gravitational pull

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While the earth gravity pulls on the moon to keep it in orbit, the moon pulls on what of the earth?

• The earth itself

• Oceans (the tides)

• The atmosphere

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Who was the scientist that discovered gravity?

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo

• Albert Einstein

• Aristotle

In our solar system, what has the greatest gravitational force?

• Saturn

• Jupiter

• Sun

• Earth

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Mass is _____.

• the amount of gravitational force that is being exerted.

• The amount of matter that something has.

If you were to go to outer space or to a different planet, what would change?

• Mass

• weight

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If an astronaught was out in the international space station, what celestial body would have the greatest influence?

• Sun

• Earth

• Moon

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