Guiding Questions

What is gravity, and what does it do?
What is gravitational pull?
What is weight?
What is the difference between mass and weight?
What is the effect of distance on gravity?
What are the main points of the law of universal gravitation?
What would happen to celestial objects, like planets, if gravity didn't exist?
What role did gravity play in the formation of the solar system?

Answer each question in order, don't explain anything, just answer each question in a very short sentence, answer it in bold words

1 answer

Gravity is a force that attracts two bodies toward each other.
Gravitational pull is the attractive force exerted by a mass on another mass.
Weight is the force exerted by gravity on an object.
Mass is the amount of matter in an object, while weight is mass subject to gravitational pull.
The effect of distance on gravity is that as distance increases, gravitational force decreases.
The law of universal gravitation states that every mass attracts every other mass with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
If gravity didn't exist, celestial objects would drift apart and not form stable orbits.
Gravity played a crucial role in gathering matter to form the solar system and keeping planets in orbit.

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