What Is the Primary Factor Affecting the Stability of an Object

question 14

Multiple Choice

What is the primary factor affecting the stability of an object?

• A) height of object
• B) location of center of gravity
• C) mass of object
• D) size and weight of object

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Definitions:

Missouri Compromise

An agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving the regulation of slavery in the western territories.

Federal Government

The national government of a federation, such as the United States, which holds the authority to govern a nation as a whole, distinct from state or local governments.

Slaves

People forced into servitude, deprived of personal freedom.

Harriet Tubman

An American abolitionist and political activist who escaped slavery and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.