Concept Review Game

Gravity

• The force of attraction that pulls objects toward each other.

• The amount of matter in an object.

• An unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to earth.

• A vehicle for exploring the surface of an extraterrestrial body (as the moon and mars)

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Rover

• The force of attraction that pulls objects toward each other

• Every object in the universe attracts every other object

• a spacecraft that gets power from an engine full of chemical propellants

• A vehicle for exploring the surface of an extraterrestrial body (as the moon and mars)

A building or place given over to or equipped for observation of natural phenomena

• Observatory

• International Space Station

• Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation

• Telescope

Gravitational attraction

• The amount of matter in an object

• A spacecraft that gets power from an engine full of chemical propellants

• A vehicle for exploring the surface of an extraterrestrial body (as the moon and mars)

• The force that pulls two objects towards each other

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Scientists who travel into space

• Mass

• Gravitational Attraction

• Space Shuttle

• Astronauts

The investigation of physical conditions in space and on stars, planets and other celestial bodies through the use of satellites, space probes, space craft with human crews.

• Gravity

• Observatory

• Space Shuttle

• Space Exploration

The father of modern science, made improvements to the telescope and discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter among many other scientific accomplishments.

• Galileo Galilei

• observatory

• astronauts

• spacecraft

Planet A,B,C, and D have the same mass in the same solar system. They are listen in order of closest to furthest from the sun. Which will experience the gravitational pull of the Sun the strongest?

• Planet A

• Planet B

• Planet C

• Planet D

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What can scientist assume about the gravitational pull on a small planet located a great distance from the sun?

• the pull will be the same as on earth

• The pull will be weak.

• More information is needed.

• The pull will be strong

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which answer choice best describes the orbit of the planets around the sun?

• they orbit with the same amount of forward motion

• they orbit in a straight line.

• they orbit in a nearly circular path

• they orbit in reverse every million years

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