Earth Sun Moon System

What is "rotation"?

• Moving from one place to another

• Up and down movement

• Going completely around something

• Spinning on an axis

What is "revolve" or "revolution"?

• To go completely around something

• Staying in place

• Spinning for hours

• Tossing something into the air

What causes day and night?

• Sun's Wobble

• Earth's rotation on it's axis

• Moon's rotation on it's axis

• Earth's revolution around the sun

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What causes the seasons?

• Suns solar energy

• Distance from the Sun

• Earth's revolution and tilted axis.

• Earth's rotation on it's axis

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True or False: It takes 24 hours (1 day) for the Earth to rotate completely. 

• True
• False

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True or False: It takes Earth 365 days (1 year) to revolve around the Sun. 

• True
• False

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Earth has seasons because 

• Earth rotates on it's axis
• The distance between Earth and the sun changes
• The temperature of the sun changes
• Earth's axis is tilted as it moves around the sun

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This is the imaginary line that intersects the Earth through both the North and South Poles

• Equator
• Axis
• Fault line
• Latitude

This picture shows Earth's 

• Rotation
• Revolution

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Our Earth does not travel sitting perfectly straight, It has a tilt. Our Earth has a tilt of

• 20 degrees
• 180 degrees
• 23.5 degrees
• 36.5 degrees

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