Sun, Moon, Planets, Stars

Earth rotates (spins) on its axis and completes one rotation in 36 hours

• true

• false

Earth rotates from ___________

• west to east

• east to west

• north to south

• south to north

the Sun appears to rise in the east and set in the ________

• east

• north

• west

• south

Because of this rotation, only the side of Earth facing the Sun is ______ and therefore experiences _________

• not lit; day

• lit; day

• lit; night

• not lit; night

the side of Earth __________ the Sun experiences ________

• facing; night

• facing; day

• not facing; night

• not facing; day

Earth rotates around an imaginary straight line called an _________ that runs through the planet’s center.

• tilt

• axis

The movement of Earth as it makes an orbit around the Sun in one year

• revolution

• orbit

Because of the tilt, the number of daylight hours changes throughout the year

• false

• true

When a hemisphere is tilted is toward the Sun, the season is __________

• winter

• fall

• spring

• summer

when the hemisphere is tiled away from the Sun, the season is ________

• fall

• winter

• spring

• summer