Systems: The Sun and the Moon

The Sun is

• a planet

• a star

• a moon

• an asteroid

The Sun appears brighter and larger because

• it is a very big Sun.

• it is made of hot gases that make it very hot.

• it is a planet that is burning up.

• it is closer to Earth than any other star.

Day and night happen because

• the Earth spins on its axis. When the Earth is facing the Sun, it is day and when the Earth is facing away from the Sun, it is night.

• the Sun rises and sets. So when the Sun is up, it's day and when the Sun sets, it's night.

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When the Sun's rays take longer to get to where we are what season's could it be?

• Summer

• Winter

• Fall

• Spring

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It is summer for us when

• The Sun's rays pathway is the shortest and directly focused on us

• The Sun's rays are the farthest from where we are

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We have seasons because

• The Earth spins around.

• The Sun gets closer to Earth and farther away as it moves around Earth.

• The Earth is tilted on its axis, and as it rotates we get different seasons

• The Moon revolves around the Earth causes the seasons to happen.

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It takes ________ days for the Earth to revolve around the Sun.

• 30

• 180

• 7

• 365

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The Earth makes one rotation on its axis every _______

• 7 days

• 24 hours

• 365 days

• 30 days

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One Earth rotation is called

• a year

• a month

• a day

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One Earth revolution around the Sun is called

• a day

• a month

• a year

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