Forces, Gravity & Friction

Friction is a force that acts in an ___________ direction of movement.

• similar
• opposite
• parallel
• west

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Imagine you decide to jump out of an airplane 🛩

Which force is going to pull you down towards earth

• Fluid Friction

• Static Friction

• Gravity

• The wind from the airplane

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What is gravity?

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

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Without gravity we would________. 

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

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What keeps the planets in orbit around the sun?

• gravity

• friction

• density

• distance

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Any object with mass has gravity.

• True
• Sometimes
• False
• Never

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The upward force which is exerted against a falling object is

• gravity

• terminal velocity

• air resistance

• intertia

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A force which causes objects to fall is

• weight

• gravity

• air resistance

• absorbency

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When a falling object stops accelerating and falls at a constant speed, it is

• fluency

• constant velocity

• acceleration

• terminal velocity

Complete the sentence.

It is not the difference in gravity that causes objects to fall at different speeds, it’s the difference in the amount of__________________.

• Gravity

• Mass

• Air resistance

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