Daphne is a pilot for a package delivery service. As her plane takes off and travels away from the Earth’s surface, its gravitational potential energy increases. Which three factors affect the plane’s gravitational potential energy?

its height relative to some reference point, its mass, and the strength of the gravitational field

Explanation:

Gravitational energy is the potential energy associated with gravitational force, such as elevating objects against the Earth’s gravity. The potential energy due to elevated positions is called gravitational potential energy.

The factors that affect an object’s gravitational potential energy are the following; its height relative to some reference point, its mass, and the strength of the gravitational field it is in. For instance, consider a wallet lying on a table, it has less gravitational potential energy than the same wallet lying on top of a taller cupboard, and yet lesser gravitational potential energy than a heavier wallet lying on the same table.

If an object lies at a certain height above the Moon’s surface, it has less gravitational potential energy than the same object lying at the same height above the Earth’s surface because the Moon’s gravitational force is weaker.

a rain shadow is a dry region of land on the side that is protected against the prevailing winds of a mountain range. the prevailing winds are the winds that occur most of the time in a particular place of the earth

prevailing winds carry air toward the mountain range. as the air rises up over a mountain range, the air cools, water vapor condenses, and clouds form. on this side of the mountains, called the windward side, precipitation falls in the form of  rain  or snow. this dry air produces a  rain shadow.

the formula mass of a molecule or a compound is the sum of the atomic weights of the atoms in its empirical formula

(that's what i know about formula mass)