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Facts the Peabody Encyclopedia for kids

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What Pulls Us Down

Gravity: What is gravity?

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Gravity is a pull. It can only pull. It can not push.

Drop a ball. It falls down. Gravity did that.

Gravity on Earth keeps you on the ground.

Gravity pulls toward the center of a planet.

Gravity pulls on your body. That gives you weight.

Everything has gravity. Some things have more.

Far things pull less. Close things pull more.

The moon has less gravity than Earth.

Gravity keeps the moon going around Earth.

It keeps Earth going around the sun.

Words to know

  • gravity: a pull
  • weight: how heavy

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