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ILS 2012 gravity
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gravity | not the same everywhere, depends on mass and distance, mass directly, distance inversely |
| Weightless | gravity is still present |
| Mass | amount of matter in an object |
| Volume | amount of space an object takes up |
| Eccentricity | length of an ellipse |
| Force/Weight | SI unit is Newtons, mass times gravity, weight decreases as you get farther away from Earth |
| Inertia | property of matter that resists change in motion, move in straight lines |
| Ellipse | shape of a planet’s orbit |
| Orbit | caused by gravity and inertia |
| Sun | orbited by planets and comets, formed by most of the mass from the solar nebula |
| Tides | caused by gravity from sun and moon |
| Jupiter | largest diameter |
| Planets and characteristics (project cards) | temperature, diameter, moons, tilt of axis, composition, revolution |
| Heliocentric/ Geocentric | Sun centered, Earth centered |
| Orbit diagram |