Earth, Moon, and Sun Exit Ticket

As the Earth travels around the sun, this tilt causes different areas of the Earth’s surface to get different amounts of daylight at different times of the year. The angle of the Sun’s rays to the surface also causes areas to have more or less of the Sun’s energy. This causes the ________.

• months
• day and night
• seasons
• years

The moon seems to change shape from day to day in a cycle that lasts about a month as it goes through _.

• revolutions
• phases
• rotations
• eclipses

As the moon's shape appears to get smaller, we say that the moon is _.

• swelling
• waxing
• waning
• disappearing

Phases of the moon in which the moon appears to be getting larger are referred to as _.

• waxing
• waning
• new
• eclipse

_________________ is the spinning of Earth on its axis and the cause of day and night (24 hours).

• Rotation

• Revolution

Movement of Earth around the sun.

• Rotation
• Revolution

What did Aristotle and Ptolemy believe about the solar system

• the sun was the center

• the moon was the center

• the earth was the center

• mars was the center

What is Galileo's and Copernicus's theory about the solar system?

• gravity

• telescope

• electromagnetic

• the sun is at the center of the universe, and all planets orbit the sun

what is a year?

• time required for the Earth to rotate once around its axis

• force

• time required for the Earth to orbit/revolve once around the sun

• time required for the moon to orbit once around the Earth

Describe the sun

• A moon
• A flaming planet
• The largest star
• An average-sized yellow star