Rotation and Revolution

The EARTH REVOLVES around the:

• Sun
• Moon
• The Earth doesn't revolve
• The sun rotates

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Day and night is caused by the _____________ of earth on its axis.

• revolution
• orbit
• rotation
• space

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What motion of the Earth takes 365 days?

• Rotation
• Tilting 
• Revolution
• Spinning

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Rotation of the earth takes

• One day
• One year
• One summer
• One winter

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Earth's rotation on its axis is what causes ______________________________.

• seasons
• moon phases
• day and night
• weather

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which happens in one year’s time?

• The moon makes one complete revolution around Earth.
  
• Earth makes one complete revolution around the sun.
• Earth makes one complete spin on its axis.
• The sun makes one complete spin on its axis.

What is true about rotation and not true about revolution?

• One rotation takes 24 hours.

• One rotation takes 365 days.

• Rotation is the same as orbiting.

• Rotation causes the seasons.

The four seasons are caused by ____________________.

• the rotation of the Earth.

• the revolution of the moon.

• the revolution of the Earth.

• the moon phases.

Which of the following lists the seasons in the correct order?

• spring

  summer

  winter

  fall

• summer

  winter

  spring

  fall

• summer

  spring

  winter

  fall

• fall

  winter

  spring

  summer

The EARTH REVOLVES around the:

• Sun
• Moon
• The Earth doesn't revolve
• The sun rotates