TCI Gravity

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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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

__________holds all of the planets in orbit around the sun.

• Force

• Motion

• Weight

• Gravity

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

How does changing the distance between objects affect the force of gravity?

• Decreasing distance increases gravity

• Increasing distance increases gravity

• Mr. Deem knows, but he's not telling

• Distance does not affect gravity

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

What is weight?

• how much fat is on your body

• how strong you are

• how strongly your body is being pulled down by gravity

• when you have to stand in line

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NGSS.5-PS2-1

Two factors effecting the strength of gravity between 2 objects are...

• distance and weight

• mass and matter

• mass and distance

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

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

• orbit

• rotation

• revolution

• phase

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

What would happen to Earth if the Sun's gravity dissappeared?

• 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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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Why do we orbit the Sun and not the other way around?

• brighter objects tend to orbit duller ones

• duller objects tend to orbit brighter ones

• lighter objects tend to orbit heavier ones

• heavier objects tend to orbit lighter ones

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

....... is the force of attraction between any two objects.

• Friction force

• Weight

• Gravity

• Magnetism

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Gravity is ......

• Attractive, non-contact force

• Repulsive, non-contact

• Attractive, contact

• Repulsive, contact

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5