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Gravity Webquest
In this webquest, you will be exploring the nature of gravity, how it affects us, and how it affects the
interactions of the planets and other objects in the solar system.
#1) Click on this site:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/explorations/space/level1/interactive.htm
#2) You will start by exploring the difference between gravity on earth and gravity on the moon by
doing the activity called Moon Olympics. Click on the picture of the Moon Olympics and follow the
directions. When finished, go onto #3.
#3) Click on this site: http://library.thinkquest.org/27585/frameset_intro.html
This site will teach you a little more about what gravity is. Click on the question mark to go to the
What is Gravity? chapter.
#4) Click NEXT PAGE: on the contents page to get to Page 2. Questions for Page 2:
What is gravity?
TRUE OR FALSE (Highlight the correct answer): Gravity is just the force that pulls us down on Earth.
#5) NEXT PAGE: Questions for Page 3:
What are the 4 fundamental interactions?
Look at the first picture. Which of the 2 sets of objects, top or bottom, has a larger attractive force?
Read the paragraph dealing below the first picture and answer this question: If 2 objects are quadruple (4
times) the distance, how much less is their attraction?
TRUE OR FALSE: When you stand on a scale in upward accelerated elevator, you weigh less than you
normally do.
#9) NEXT PAGE: Questions for Page 7:
Remember back to the demonstration we did with the sheet. How does gravity change the path of the
ball if there is another larger ball present?
According to the last paragraph on this page, what object in our Solar System creates the curves in
space-time that affects the planets?
#10) LEARNING BREAK! Play this gravity launch game below until you succeed in the first 2
missions
http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/gravity.html
#11) Click back to this link: http://library.thinkquest.org/27585/frameset_intro.html
Click on the link to LARGE SCALE EFFECTS
#12) NEXT PAGE:. Answer the questions about page 2:
TRUE OR FALSE: Gravity not only affects humans on earth, but it also affects the structure of the
universe.
What holds the planets in orbit around the sun?
If you threw a ball off a mountain at a very fast speed, what would happen?
If a planetary system has two stars, what happens between the two stars?