The Solar System and Beyond

All of the following are true statements except:

• Earth rotates one complete turn every 24 hours.

• Earth's rotation causes day and night.

• It takes the Earth one year to revolve around the sun.

• Earth rotates once every 48 hours.

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What season occurs in the Northern Hemisphere when the Earth's Northern Hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun?

• spring

• summer

• fall

• winter

What causes day and night?

• Earth's rotation

• the moon revolving around the Earth

• Earth's revolution around the sun

• the tilt of the Earth's axis

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What causes the seasons?

• the revolution of the Moon

• Earth's tilt and revolution around the sun

• Earth's rotation on its axis

• Earth's distance from the Sun

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The star at the center of our solar system:

• Sun

• moon

• Polaris

• Betelgeuse

Which diagram shows the correct orbit of the Sun, moon, and Earth?

• A

• B

• C

• D

The moon appears bright in the night sky because it....

• gives off its own light

• reflects light from the Sun

• reflects light from the Earth

• absorbs light from the stars

Earth has seasons because it...

• revolves around the moon
• rotates around the sun
• is tilted on its axis
• rotates on its axis

The attractive force between objects is called....

• force

• Gravity

• inertia

• motion

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The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion is called....

• gravity

• inertia

• mass

• matter