Earth and Sun

What do shadows on Earth help show?

• Earth's rotation

• Earth's revolution

• Earth's equator

• Earth's axis

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What changes the length of a shadow?

• the size of the sun

• the angle of the sun

• the heat of the sun

• the color of the sun

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NGSS.5-ESS1-2

When the sun gets higher in the sky, shadows get ______.

• longer

• gone

• shorter

• darker

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NGSS.5-ESS1-2

When the sun gets lower in the sky, shadows get______.

• longer

• gone

• shorter

• darker

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

At noon, when the sun is overhead, shadows ______.

• get longer

• almost disappear

• get shorter

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Shadows are longest during _______.

• morning and evening

• noon

• night

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NGSS.5-ESS1-2

Shadows are shortest around______.

• morning and evening

• noon

• night

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

When was this picture most likely taken?

(Hint: think about the shadow's length)

• morning or evening

• night

• noon

• afternoon

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NGSS.5-ESS1-2

The sun appears to __________.

• rise in the east, set in the west

• rise in the west, set in the east

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The time it takes the Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis is -

• one year

• one month

• one week

• one day

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1