Gravitational Forces

When placed at equal distances apart, the greatest gravitational attraction will be between two

• skateboards

• bowling balls

• school buses

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The force of gravity is related to the masses of objects attracting each other. Which planet has the greatest mass?

• Mercury 3.7

• Jupiter 23.1

• Neptune 11.0

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A baseball and bat are on the ground.   What is true?

• They attract each other with equal gravitational force.

• There is no gravitational force between them.

• The baseball will float because it's lighter.

• The bat will pull the baseball closer to itself.

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Gravity on moon is less than the gravity on earth because

• a. moon's mass is less

• b. moon's mass is more

• c. moon's mass is equal to Earth

• d. moon has no mass

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As an object's mass increases, its gravitational pull will ____________.

• decrease

• increase

• stay the same

• get weaker

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Why would you weigh less on the moon compared to Earth?

• less air

• less sunlight

• more gravitational pull

• less gravitational pull

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Two factors effecting the magnitude of the force of gravity between 2 objects are...

• mass and distance 

• mass and matter

• distance and weight 

• weight and mass

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As mass increases, what happens to gravitational force?

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

• i don't know

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Which system has the greater gravitational attraction between the two objects (if any)?

• System A

• System B

• Same gravitational attraction fro System A and System B

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If a bowling ball and a feather were dropped at the same time, in a room with no air resistance (vacuum), which object will hit the ground first?

• Bowling Ball

• Feather

• Both would hit at the same time

• Neither one would hit the ground because air is what pushing things down.

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