Gravity

Any object with mass has gravity.

• True
• Sometimes
• False
• Never

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As distance between two objects increase the pull of gravity ___________.

• Increases

• Decreases.

• Doesn't change

If Earth's mass was cut in half, what would happen to your weight?

• Increase because gravitational force increases
• decrease because gravitational force decreases
• decrease because gravitational force increases
• nothing, weight is not affected by gravitational force

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A person would weigh more on Jupiter than on the Earth because---

• Jupiter has less mass, and therefore less gravity
• Jupiter has more mass, and therefore less gravity.
• Jupiter has less mass, and therefore more gravity.
• Jupiter has more mass, and therefore more gravity

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__________holds all of the planets in orbit around the sun.

• Force
• Motion
• Weight
• Gravity

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Without gravity, the stars, planets and all objects in the universe would _______.

• continue to orbit each other

• move in a random direction

• move in a straight line

• stop moving

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A(n) _____ is the curved path of an object around a point/object in space.

• orbit

• rotation

• revolution

• phase

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Which model has greater gravitational attraction (if any)

• Model A
• Model B
• Both Model A and Model B (same gravity)

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What would happen to Earth if its forward motion stopped?

• Earth would continue to orbit in our Solar System normally.

• Earth would sit motionless and not moving.

• Earth would drift off in space because nothing would hold it in the Solar System.

• Earth would move toward the Sun and eventually crash into it.

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What is true about the distance between a planet and the sun and the planet’s revolution around the Sun?

• The closer the planet is to the sun, the slower it orbits.

• The farther the planet is to the sun, the faster it orbits.

• The farther the planet is to the sun, the brighter the sun is.

• The closer the planet is to the sun, the faster it orbits.

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