Gravity
Quarter 3: Lesson 1
What I Know
Directions: Infer how gravity affects movements
of different objects. Read and answer the
questions below.
1. Why does a ball thrown into the air tend to fall
back to the ground?
A. Gravity causes the ball to fall.
B. The air pulls the ball to the ground.
C. Acceleration causes the ball to move faster.
D. The mass of the ball causes the ball to
drop.
2. What is the direction towards which objects on
Earth are pulled by the Earth?
A. back
B. center
C. front
D. side
3. In order to jump, what force do we need to
overcome?
A. friction
B. gravity
C. mass
D. wind
4. Which will happen if a ball is thrown upward?
A. The ball remains in the air.
B. The ball moves in a curve path.
C. The ball will go back to the ground.
D. The ball continues to move upward.
6. Imagine the Earth lost its gravity. What will
happen to objects on it?
A. All objects will float in the air.
B. All objects will fall on the ground.
C. Everything will just stay in place.
D. Only the lighter objects will float in the air.
7. Which of the following keeps all objects on
Earth stay on the ground?
A. energy
B. gravity
C. mass
D. speed
8. How will planets move if there is no gravity in
the universe?
A. Nothing will happen.
B. Planets will stay in orbit.
C. Planets will not be attracted to each other.
D. All planets will move to the eastern
direction.
9. Who discovered gravity when he saw an apple
falling to the ground?
A. Albert Einstein
B. Galileo Galilei
C. Isaac Newton
D. Nicholas Copernicus
10. Gravity affects all objects in the universe.
A. true
B. false
C. maybe
D. it depends
Let’s Check!
• What I Know
1. C.
2. B.
3. D.
4. D.
5. B.
6. A.
7. B.
8. C.
9. D.
10. B.
The theory of gravity was proposed by Sir
Isaac Newton in 1687 in his book Principia
Mathematica. He saw an apple falling from a tree,
and it got him thinking about the mysterious force
that pulls objects to the ground. Newton named
this mysterious force “gravity”.
What is Gravity?
Gravity puts all things on Earth and the universe
in order. Cars, water in the ocean, rocks, houses,
tables, chairs, plates, appliances, and other things
stayed on its place. They do not float away. Gravity
helps keep the planets orbiting around the sun and
moons revolving around the planets. Objects that are
thrown upward on Earth eventually fall down. This is
because the Earth is exerting an attractive force on us
and to all things around us.
What is Gravity?
Without gravity, everything on the Earth’s
surface will float in the atmosphere, just like
astronauts floating in their spaceship. While
traveling in the outer space, sun, planets and
other heavenly bodies in the solar system will
bump at each other. Stones thrown upward will
never fall down.
Determine if gravity is acting on the object from the pictures.
Analyze them carefully. Answer the questions that follow.
1. Is gravity acting on the car that falls off a cliff (Figure 1)?
2. Is gravity acting on the astronaut experiencing weightlessness in
space (Figure 2)?
