Astronomy Review

The study of space and the objects in it

• geology

• astronomy

• astrology

• meteorology

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What causes day and night on Earth?

• One Earth rotation
• One revolution around the sun

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What causes years on Earth?

• One Earth rotation
• One revolution around the sun

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What phase of the moon is pictured here?

• New moon
• Waxing crescent moon
• Full moon
• Waxing gibbous moon

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What phase of the moon is pictured here?

• Full moon
• New moon
• Waxing gibbous
• Waxing crescent

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The moon seems to change shape from day to day in a cycle that lasts about a month as it goes through _.

• revolutions
• phases
• rotations
• eclipses

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As the moon's shape appears to get smaller, we say that the moon is _.

• swelling
• waxing
• waning
• disappearing

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Phases of the moon in which the moon appears to be getting larger are referred to as _.

• waxing
• waning
• new
• eclipse

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The asteroid belt is located between which two planets?

• Earth and Mars.
• Venus and Earth.
• Mars and Jupiter.
• Mercury and Earth.

A _______ is a burning body of matter that has entered Earth's atmosphere; "shooting star"

• Meteor
• Comet
• Asteroid
• Solar Flare