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What Pulls Us Down: teacher key

Gravity, grade 1 edition, written for 1st grade. Gravity is a pull. Learn what it does to a ball, to you and to the moon.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

  1. What can gravity do?
    • Pull (answer)
    • Push
    • Sing
  2. What happens when you drop a ball?
    • It falls down (answer)
    • It flies up
    • It sits
  3. Which pulls more?
    • Close things (answer)
    • Far things
    • Nothing
  4. What does gravity keep going around Earth?
    • A bus
    • The moon (answer)
    • A cat
  5. What keeps Earth going around the sun?
    • Wind
    • Gravity (answer)
    • A rope

Words

  • gravity: a pull
  • weight: how heavy