Solar System Review

Which season is taking place in the Northern Hemisphere in Position 3?

• Winter
• Spring
• Summer
• Fall

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Revolution

• The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet or moon.

• An imaginary line about which a body rotates.

• The action of rotating around an axis or center.

• The motion of one object around another

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are know as ________ planets.

• ice giants/gas giants

• terrestrial planets

• outer planets

• inner planets

___________ are objects made of ice, dust, and rocks that orbit the Sun.

• dwarf planets

• comets

• Asteroid belt

• Kuiper belt

• Oort Cloud

The _________ is a region between the planets Mars and Jupiter containing thousands of rocky objects that orbit the Sun.

• dwarf planets

• comets

• Asteroid belt

• Kuiper belt

• Oort cloud

What is the correct order of the first five phases of the moon?

• new, crescent, quarter, gibbous, full

• new, crescent, gibbous, quarter, full

• full, crescent, quarter, gibbous, new

• full, quarter, gibbous, crescent, new

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Our solar system is part of a bigger grouping of stars called the ___________ galaxy.

• Milky Way

• Andromeda

• Messier 63

• Whirlpool

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All rotation and revolution lengths are the same for each planet.

• true

• false

Why do we have seasons?

• It rotates on its axis as it revolves around the sun

• It gets closer and farther from the sun

• The tilt of the Earth's axis as it revolves around the sun

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Why do we have night and day?

• The Earth REVOLVES around the sun.

• The Earth ROTATES on it's axis

• The Earth ROTATES around the sun

• The Earth REVOLVES around it's axis

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