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science 5th grade
Earth's Gravitational forces questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ________ is a force that pulls masses / objects towards large matters like the Earth and Sun. | gravity |
| Earth has a lot of ____________ compared to objects on it which is why we get pulled to earth. | mass |
| A tissue falls slower than a ball because of _______. | air |
| Gravity is a ______________ force that never turn's off. | constant |
| Earth's gravity always _________ objects towards Earth's ___________. | pulls center |
| Stars stay in their _____________ because of gravity. | galaxies |
| Earth and other planets stay in __________ around the sun since the sun has more mass than other plantes causing the sun to have gravitational pull of planets in our solar system. | orbit |
| Most rockets have ______ or _________ rocket boosters. | two three |
| You could be anywhere on Earth and any person who pointed down would point towards the _____________ of the Earth. | center |
| The escape velocity a rocket must achieve to leave earth, is at least _____________ miles per hour | 25,000 |
| When parachuters jump from aplane, they fall forward towards ______________. | earth |
| Everything that has mass ___________ a gravitational force on other objects | exerts |
| New York is what time zone? | eastern |
| California is what time zone? | western |
| When you travel east time changes _____________ | forward |
| When you travel west time changes ______________ | backward |
| You can not feel Earth ______________ but our planet is constantly moving in space | moving |
| An _________ is an imaginary line that goes through the center of and object. | axis |
| Earth's axis passes through the _____________, _______________, and _____________________. | north pole center south pole |
| The spinning of Earth and other bodies in space on an axis called ___________________ | rotation |
| Earht makes one whole rotation every ______________ | 24 hours |
| The side of Earth that faces the sun experiences ___________ and the side of the earth that faces away from the sun experience _______________. | day night |
| The sun rises in the __________ and sets in the ____________. | east west |
| When you celebrate your birthday each year you are actually celebrating a complet trip around the _________. | sun |
| Earth's morion around the sun is called _____________. | revolution |
| A location gets more daylight in the _________ than it does in the winter | summer |
| When light shines on an object and does not pass through it, the object casts a _________________. | shadow |
| In ancient times, may cultures used a ____________ to tell time. | sundial |
| By observing the location of constellations in the sky, people could figure out when to ______________ their crops and when to _________ them. | plant havest |
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