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Which answer correctly orders the planets from the sun?

• Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune

The inner planets are also called...

• terrestrial planets
• gas giants

The motion of a body orbiting another body in space is called _____.

• revolution 
• period of revolution
• rotation
• period of rotation

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

As distance between two objects increase the pull of gravity 

• Increases
• Decreases
• Stays the same

Gravity attracts all objects towards one another.

• False
• True
• It depends

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NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Spinning of the Earth on its axis is called...

• rotation
• revolution
• orbit
• double axis

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The EARTH REVOLVES around the:

• Sun
• Moon
• The Earth doesn't revolve
• The sun rotates

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

What does ROTATION mean?

• To SPIN
• To ORBIT or GO AROUND

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CCSS.8.G.A.3

CCSS.HSG.CO.A.5

Day and night is caused by the _____________ of earth on its axis.

• revolution
• orbit
• rotation
• space

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What motion of the Earth takes 365 days?

• Rotation
• Tilting 
• Revolution
• Spinning

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1