Gravity
6 free practice questions with explanations
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Gravity: example questions & answers
6 worked examples with answers and explanations below. Practise them in the browser with instant feedback on every answer.
What invisible force pulls a dropped ball down to the ground?
- AGravity✓
- BSunshine
- CWind
- DMagnetism
Answer: Gravity is the force that pulls everything down towards the Earth.
If you drop your spoon, which way does gravity make it go?
- AUp
- BSideways forever
- CDown✓
- DRound in circles
Answer: Gravity always pulls objects downwards, so a dropped spoon falls to the floor.
Why do we not float off into the air when we jump?
- AGravity pulls us back down✓
- BOur shoes are magnetic
- CThe air is sticky
- DWe are too heavy to move
Answer: Gravity pulls us back down to the ground every time we jump.
Astronauts on a spaceship going around the Earth seem to float. What are they and their spaceship both doing all the time?
- ASpinning round very fast all the time
- BGrowing lighter and lighter
- CFalling around the Earth✓
- DPushing the pull of gravity away
Answer: The spaceship and everyone inside it are falling around the Earth together, so nobody presses on the floor and they seem to float. There is still lots of gravity up there!
Which of these falls to the ground because of gravity?
- AA rainbow
- BA star at night
- CA cloud staying in the sky
- DAn apple dropping from a tree✓
Answer: Gravity pulls the apple down from the tree to the ground.
Gravity is the force that keeps the Moon travelling around which planet?
- AThe Sun's twin
- BEarth✓
- CJupiter
- DMars
Answer: Earth's gravity holds the Moon in its path, circling around us.