Sun - Earth - Moon System

What are properties?

• A place to live

• A species of animal

• Traits or characteristics

• The rise and fall of ocean currents

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

To rotate means to spin and to revolve means to go around.

• True

• False

• Sometimes true

• They mean the same thing

_________ is the force that pulls objects toward each other (and what keeps our feet on the ground).

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Phases of the moon

• Gravitational pull

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

1 day = 1 full revolution/orbit around the sun.

• True

• False

The bottom half of the earth is call the __________.

• Northern Hemisphere

• Southern Hemisphere

• Eastern Hemisphere

• Western Hemisphere

If something occurs yearly it is _________.

• Weekly

• Monthly

• Annual

• Regular

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Are we in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere?

• Northern

• Southern

• Eastern

• Western

The invisible line that runs through the center of the earth and that the earth spins on is the ____________.

• Axis

• Southern Hemisphere

• Rotation

• Revolution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The Earth's rotation causes ___________ and ___________.

• rotation and revolution

• gravity and rotation

• phases of the moon

• day and night

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The ____________ is a layer of gases that surrounds the Earth.

• Atmosphere

• Northern Hemisphere

• Southern Hemisphere

• Gravitational pull