Earth's Revolutions and Seasons Reading Passage Questions

Match the following

• events that happen over and over again

• mass

• the most northern or southern point on a planet

• equator

• a line that divides North and South of the Earth in half

• cycle

• the amount of material in something

• hemisphere

• one of the North, South, East, or West halves of Earth

• pole

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Because the Earth is curved, different parts of Earth receive different amounts of __________.

• equator

• sunlight

• poles

• hemisphere

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Temperatures near the _________ are colder.

• poles

• equator

• Western hemisphere

• Prime Meridian

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The summer solstice occurs in June in the northern hemisphere.

• true

• false

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Earth’s rotational axis is always tilted in the same direction.

For half of the year, the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, and the other half of the year the southern hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun.

• true

• false

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Summer occurs when a hemisphere of Earth is

• turned away from the Sun

• tilted toward the Sun

• tilted away from the Sun

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