TEKS: P.5H Gravitation Vocab Quiz

Mass as used in the law of universal gravitation; the quantity that measures an object's response to gravitational force.

• Solar Eclipse

• Inertial Mass

• Gravitational Mass

• Apogee

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NGSS.HS-PS2-4

A measure of an object's resistance to any type of force. 

• Inertial Mass

• Gravitational Mass

• Synchronous Rotation

• Perigee

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NGSS.HS-PS2-1

It occurs when the Moon passes behind the Earth in relation to the Sun. 

• Solar Eclipse

• Apogee

• Lunar Eclipse

• Solstice

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A vector quantity that relates the mass of an object to the gravitational force it experiences at a given location; represented by the symbol g.

• Field Forces

• Gravitational Field

• Circular Motion

• Synchronous Rotation

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NGSS.HS-PS2-4

The closest point in the Moon's orbit to the Earth.

• Mass

• Apogee

• Lunar eclipse

• Perigee

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NGSS.HS-PS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

the state in which the orbital and rotational periods of a body in orbit are equal. 

• Heliocentric Model

• Synchronous Rotation

• Gravitational Force

• Planet

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

Establishes that an imaginary line from the Sun to a planet sweeps out equal areas in equal intervals of time. 

• First Law of Kepler

• Second Law of Kepler

• Third Law of Kepler

• Third Law of Newton

Indicate that the planets move in elliptical paths with the Sun at one of the foci.

• Kepler's 3rd Law

• Kepler's 2nd Law

• Kepler's 1st Law

• Newton's 3rd Law

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

It states that the square of the ratio of the periods of any two planets is equal to the cube of the ratio of their average distances from the Sun.  

• Newton's 3rd Law

• Kepler's 3rd Law

• Kepler's 2nd Law

• Kepler's 1st Law

Establishes that the gravitational force between two objects is directly proportional to the square of the distance between their centers. 

• Gravitational Field

• Gravitational Force

• Synchronic Rotation

• Law of Gravitational Motion

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NGSS.HS-PS2-4