Earth's Rotation

The sun goes across the sky from east to west because the Earth is rotating/spinning and sometimes we face the sun and sometimes we don't!

• true

• false

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Where does the sun go when we can't see it?

• Mars

• Starbucks

• the earth rotates and the sun is facing the other side of the earth

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What is the invisible line between the North Pole and South Pole called?

• rotation

• orbit

• axis

• gravity

The spinning movement of earth around itself on its axis is called __________.

• summer

• Earth's rotation

• seasons

The Earth's rotation is what gives us day and night everyday, all year.

• true

• false

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If you are on the side of the Earth facing TO THE SUN it is _____.

• day

• night

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At the same time that the Earth spins on its axis it also orbits or revolves around the Sun. This movement is called its _____________.

• rotation

• axis

• revolution

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The Earth is rotating on its axis, creating day and night, at the same time it's revolving all the way around the Sun.

• True

• False

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The Earth is rotating AND revolving all the time.

• True

• False

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One full orbit all the way around the Sun is one revolution and it takes the Earth _______ days to complete a revolution.

• 42

• 1

• 398

• 365 1/4

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