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Understanding Gravity Worksheet
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Understanding Gravity Worksheet
📚 Part 1: Multiple Choice
1. What is gravity?
A force that pulls objects together
Something that makes things grow
A type of light
A sound made by the Earth
2. Which direction does gravity pull objects?
Up towards the sky
Sideways across the ground
Towards the centre of the Earth
Away from the Earth
3. You throw a ball straight up. What happens next?
It keeps going up forever
It slows, stops, then falls back down
It turns into a bird
It becomes lighter
4. Check all that gravity acts on:
Planets
Apples
Ideas
Sounds
✏️ Part 2: Short Answers
5. Fill in the blank:
Gravity pulls objects toward the ___________________________. (write your answer)
6. Why do astronauts float in space? Write a short sentence.
7. If you drop a feather and a ball on Earth, which usually reaches the ground first? Explain why.
🔬 Part 3: Investigation & Drawing
8. Quick investigation: Hold a small stone and a flat sheet of paper. Predict what happens when you drop each one separately, then predict what happens if you crumple the paper. Write your predictions.
9. Draw and label: Show an apple falling from a tree. Draw an arrow for gravity and label the "Earth" and the "centre of the Earth".
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