Science Fusion Unit 2 -4th Grade

Earth ______, or spins.  This spinning causes day and night.  

• rotates
• revolves
  revolves
• axis

The imaginary pole or line that the Earth spins on is called Earth's _____

• equator
• axis 
• rotation
• merry go round 

It takes Earth _______ to rotate on it's axis. 

• 365 days
• a decade
• 24 hours
• 48 hours

It takes the Earth 1 year to __________________  around the sun. 

• rotate
• spin
• jump
• revolve 

A star pattern, or _________ is a group of starts that seems to form a pattern in the night sky. 

• constellations
• Solar System
• planets
• UFOs 

The Earth orbits the ____.  

• moon
• Sun
• Saturn
• Jupiter 

The moon orbits the _______. 

• Sun
• Comets
• Stars
• Earth 

The moon gets its light from the ________. 

• Earth
• Moon
• Sun
• Saturn 

Earth's path in space is called an _______. 

• axis 
• orbit 
• elliptical 

Then changes in the appearance of the moon's shape are known as the __________. 

• revolution 
• orbit 
• phases
• new