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TEKS: P.5H Gravitation Vocab Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class
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1.

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

a)

Solar Eclipse

b)

Inertial Mass

c)

Gravitational Mass

d)

Apogee

2.

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


a)

Inertial Mass

b)

Gravitational Mass

c)

Synchronous Rotation

d)

Perigee

3.

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

a)

Solar Eclipse

b)

Apogee

c)

Lunar Eclipse

d)

Solstice

4.

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.

a)

Field Forces

b)

Gravitational Field

c)

Circular Motion

d)

Synchronous Rotation

5.

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

a)

Mass

b)

Apogee

c)

Lunar eclipse

d)

Perigee

6.

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

a)

Heliocentric Model

b)

Synchronous Rotation

c)

Gravitational Force

d)

Planet

7.

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

a)

First Law of Kepler

b)

Second Law of Kepler

c)

Third Law of Kepler

d)

Third Law of Newton

8.

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

a)

Kepler's 3rd Law

b)

Kepler's 2nd Law

c)

Kepler's 1st Law

d)

Newton's 3rd Law

9.

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.  

a)

Newton's 3rd Law

b)

Kepler's 3rd Law

c)

Kepler's 2nd Law

d)

Kepler's 1st Law

10.

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

a)

Gravitational Field

b)

Gravitational Force

c)

Synchronic Rotation

d)

Law of Gravitational Motion