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Stand on Earth, Stand on the Moon

What if we stood on the Moon? It would definitely be different from


standing on the Earth because the Earth and the Moon don’t have the same
gravity. This is because their masses are different. Your mass would be the
same when you are on the Earth and the Moon. However, your weight is
different because the Moon’s gravity is less than the Earth’s. Weight is the
unit that measures how much gravity acts on the mass of something. An
object with more mass has more gravity, so it weighs more. When we travel
to the moon or other planets, our mass is the same, but our weight changes.
For example, the moon has about one-sixth the gravity of Earth, so your
weight is one sixth of that on Earth. In other words, a six-Newton object on
the Earth only weighs one Newton on the moon.

Example: An object with more mass has more gravity.  True

 A six-kilogram bag of sugar weighs more than a one-kilogram bag of sugar.


 A sixty-Newton statue weighs only six Newtons on the moon.
 People have different masses on the Earth and the Moon.

 People have different weights on the Earth and the Moon.


 The mass of the Earth is different from the mass of the Moon.
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