Chapter 6 Course Mod.

The path of an object as it revolves around another object is its....

• orbit
• revolution
• axis
• rotation

An object that orbits the sun, is large enough to have been rounded by it's gravity, and has cleared the area of its orbit is called a(n)

• planet
• star
• meteror
• astroid

What the name of the moon phase in the background?

• waxing gibbous
• waxing crescent
• waning crescent
• waning gibbous

An imaginary line that passes through a planet's center and its north and south pole is...

• rotation
• orbit
• axis
• equator

If I have a kg on mass of kg on Earth, my mass on the moon is ...

• 1/6 the amount
• less
• the same
• more

How long does it take the moon to revolve ONE time around the Earth?

• 29 days
• It doesn't revolve around the Earth
• 24 hours
• 365 1/2 days

Waxing means increasing.

• True
• False

The sun rises in the _____ and sets in the ______. 

• west and east
• south and north
• east and west
• north and south

The vernal equinox marks the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere.

• True
• False

The phases of the moon you see depends on...

• whether or not an eclipse is occuring
• where you are on Earth's surface
• how much of the sunlight side of the of the moon faces Earth. 
• how much of the moon's surface is hit by the sun.