Earth, Sun, and Moon Relationships

What causes day and night?

• Earth rotating on its axis

• Earth rotating around the sun

• Earth revolving around the sun

• Moon revolving around the sun

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What is the cause for our 4 seasons, spring, summer, autumn, and winter?

• The sun

• Earth rotating around its axis

• Moon phases

• Earth revolving around the sun

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At what degree is our Earth tilted?

• 30 degrees

• 90 degrees

• 23.5 degrees

• 22.5 degrees

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How can it be daytime in one city, like Belvidere, Illinois, and nighttime in another city, Ho Chi Min, Vietnam, in the world?

• Due to the rotation of the Earth on its axis. One side of the Earth is facing the sun and the other is dark.

• The Earth revolving around the sun

• The Earth revolving around the moon

• The dark side

Does the Earth revolve or rotate around the sun?

• Rotate

• Revolve

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Does the moon revolve or rotate around the Earth?

• Revolve

• Rotate

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Does the Earth rotate or revolve around its axis?

• Rotate

• Revolve

Why can we see certain parts of the moon phases?

• The moon gets bigger and smaller

• The Earth gets bigger and smaller

• the Sun lights different parts of the Moon as the Moon revolves around the Earth.

• The Sun gets bigger and smaller

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What phase of the moon is this?

• 1st quarter

• waxing crescent

• waning gibbous

• new moon

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What phase of the moon is this?

• third quarter

• waxing crescent

• full moon

• waxing gibbous

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