Earth's Days, Years, and Seasons

What is the spinning of a body, such as a planet, on its axis?

• Revolution

• Axis

• Rotation

• Day

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What is the time it takes a planet to complete one full rotation on its axis?

• Rotation

• Year

• Revolution

• Day

What is the motion of a body that travels around another body in space?

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Equinox

• Seasons

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What is the time it takes Earth to complete a full revolution around the sun?

• Year

• Day

• Month

• 28 days

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What is the pattern of temperature and other weather trends?

• Weather

• Temperature

• Seasons

• Sessions

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What is it called when the sunlight shines equally on the Southern and Northern Hemispheres?

• Solstice

• Day

• Year

• Equinox

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What is it called when the sunlight reaches more of one hemisphere than the other?

• Solstice

• Equinox

• Day

• Year

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About how many days are in an Earth year?

• 356

• 365^1/4

• 311

• 360

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How many hours are in an Earth day?

• 12

• 24

• 36

• 48

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When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere it is ____________ in the Southern Hemisphere?

• Summer

• Fall

• Winter

• Spring

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