Gizmos Weight and Mass

Your weight is the pull of gravity on your body. Suppose you step on a bathroom scale on the Moon. How would your weight on the Moon compare to your weight on Earth?

• Greater on the Moon

• Less on the Moon

• Same on Earth and the Moon

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Your mass is the amount of matter, or "stuff", in your body. How would your mass on the Moon compare to your mass on Earth?

• Greater on the Moon

• Less on the Moon

• Same on Earth and the Moon

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Place the dog on the right pan of the balance. What happens?

• The pan goes up

• The pan goes down

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Place the 5-kilogram (kg) mass on the other pan. Which has more mass, the dog or the 5-kg mass?

• The 5-kg mass

• The dog

What is the mass of the dog?

• 2370 g

• 5000 g

Predict:

If you take an object to a different planet, do you think its weight will stay the same or be different?

• Same

• Different

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Does the weigh of an object change when it is moved to a different planet?

• Yes the object weighed the most on Jupiter and the least on the Moon

• Yes the object weighed the most on the Moon and the least on Jupiter

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Which Celestial body has the strongest gravity, Earth, the Moon, Mars, or Jupiter?

• Earth

• The Moon

• Mars

• Jupiter

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If you take an object to a different planet, do you think its mass will stay the same or be different?

• Same

• Different

Draw conclusions

Based on what you have learned about mass and weight, why do you think mass did not change but the weight did?

• Mass is the amount of matter in an object and this does change when moving to a different planet and weight depends on how strong gravity is

• Mass is the amount of matter in an object and this does not change when moving to a different planet and weight depends on how strong gravity is.