Earth in Space

The longest day of the year is

• Spring equinox

• Summer solstice

• Autumn equinox

• Winter Solstice

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What motion is responsible for day and night

• The rotation of Earth

• The rotation of the moon

• The revolution of Earth around the sun.

• The revolution of the moon around the Earth

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What motion is responsible for the seasons?

• The rotation of the sun

• The rotation of the Earth

• The revolution of Earth around the sun

• The revolution of the sun around the Earth

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What is the difference between rotation and revolution?

• Rotation is the Earth turning on its axis. Revolution is the Earth circling around the Sun.

• Rotation is the Earth circling around the Sun and revolution is the Earth turning on its axis.

• There is no difference and they are the same.

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The sun's gravity helps

• keep the moon in orbit around the Earth

• keep the Earth in orbit around the Sun

• to shape the Earth as a sphere

• to control the tides on Earth

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Which object exerts the greatest gravitational force

• The Sun

• The Earth

• The moon

• Pluto

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The Earth rotates about an imaginary axis at an angle of:

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If you were in space viewing the Earth from above the North Pole, you would observe that it rotates in a _________ direction.

• clockwise

• counter clockwise

Select the TWO TRUE statements.

• It takes the Earth about 365 days to make one rotation on its axis.

• It takes the Earth about 24 hours to revolve around the sun.

• The Sun moves around the Earth once every 24 hours.

• The Earth will have completed about 91 rotations from the start of spring to the start of summer.

• It takes the Earth about 365 days to complete its orbit around the Sun.

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Beginning of spring and fall; days on which hours of daylight equal hours of darkness

• equinox

• solstice

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