Space: Earths Motions Part 1

Which term describes when the Earth spins on its axis.

• Rotation
• Revolution
• Kepler's Laws
• Precession

Which type of motion causes night / day? 

• Rotation
• Revolution
• Kepler's 1st Law
• Nutation

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Which term describes the time it takes for Earth to complete one circle around the sun.

• Rotation
• Revolution
• Kepler's 1st Law
• Barycenter

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Lasts 365.25 days

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Nutation

• Precession

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Lasts 24 hours

• Rotation
• Revolution
• Precession 
• Barycenter

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The hemisphere where you live.

• equator
• southern
• northern
• eastern

The Earth spins on a tilted, imaginary line called a (an)

• Axis

• Equator

• Solstice

• Hemisphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The place where a planet is farthest away from the Sun in its orbit around the Sun is called the

• aphelion
• perihelion

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

Our solar system rotates around the. . .

• Sun

• Moon

• Earth

• Milky Way

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The Earth's axis is tilted _____ degrees.

• 23.5
• 25.3
• 30.2
• 24

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1