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  1. When a body is taken from earth to moon
    1. mass changes but weight remains same
    2. weight changes but mass remains same
    3. both weight and mass change
    4. both weight and mass remain same
Correct Option: B

Mass is how much stuff we are made of, and it is the same whether we are on Earth, on the moon, on Mercury, or anywhere else one can think of. We are held on Earth by gravity. Gravity pulling on mass is our weight .The amount gravity pulls on us anywhere depends on our mass and the mass of the other object (and how far apart the objects are). The moon is smaller than Earth and has a smaller mass, so the moon won’t pull on us as much if we are standing on it. The moon’s gravity is about 1/6 that of Earth’s gravity. Weight is what we get when we stand on a scale. If we were to weigh ourselves on a scale on earth and then could take that same scale to the moon and weigh ourselves there, the weight read on the moon would be 1/6 your earth weight.



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