WorksheetsTEKS: P.5H Gravitation Vocab Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
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
A measure of an object's resistance to any type of force.
Inertial Mass
Gravitational Mass
Synchronous Rotation
Perigee
It occurs when the Moon passes behind the Earth in relation to the Sun.
Solar Eclipse
Apogee
Lunar Eclipse
Solstice
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
The closest point in the Moon's orbit to the Earth.
Mass
Apogee
Lunar eclipse
Perigee
the state in which the orbital and rotational periods of a body in orbit are equal.
Heliocentric Model
Synchronous Rotation
Gravitational Force
Planet
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
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
