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  • What happens to the strength of gravity if the distance between two objects increases?
    The strength of gravity decreases
  • What is inertia?
    The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion
  • How do objects stay in orbit?
    Objects have a tendency to keep moving forward in a constant direction and speed due to inertia, but gravity causes the object's path to curve towards a mass.
  • What is Newton's law of universal gravitation?
    Every object in the universe attracts every other object
  • What is Newton's first law of motion?
    An object at rest will stay at rest, and an object in motion will stay in motion with a constant speed and direction unless acted on by a force
  • What is a force?
    A push or pull
  • What does the strength of the force of gravity depend on?
    The mass of two objects and the distance between them
  • What happens to the strength of gravity if the mass of an object increases?
    The strength of gravity increases
  • What is gravity?
    The force that attracts all objects toward each other