Q: What is the term for potential energy due to the position of an object above earth?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Potential energy due to the position of an object above Earth is called gravitational potential energy. Like the leaves on trees, anything that is raised up above Earth’s surface has the potential to fall because of gravity. You can see examples of people with gravitational potential energy in Figure below .

 Choices:

- gravitational pull energy

- gravitational indication energy

- gravitational recovery energy

- gravitational potential energy


A:
gravitational potential energy