5th Grade Astronomy Test

Number 5 on the solar system represents which planet?

• Mercury

• Venus

• Saturn

• Jupiter

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Object number 2 on the solar system represents which planet?

• Earth

• Venus

• Neptune

• Mars

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Which of these is the center of our solar system?

• Earth

• moon

• Sun

• Neptune

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What does the Earth rotate (spin) on?

• Axis

• Equator

• Orbit

• Hemisphere

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What does Earth cast to help show Earth's rotation?

• Night

• Day

• Shadows

• None of the above

How long does it take Earth to complete one rotation?

• 365 days

• 72 hours

• 24 days

• 24 hours

When the Sun appears lower in the sky towards evening, what happens to the shadows?

• they are longer

• they are shorter

• they go away

• nothing happens

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How long does it take for Earth to revolve around the Sun once?

• 1 month

• 24 hours

• 365 days

• 23.5 days

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What is a revolution?

• The movement of Earth as it makes an orbit around the Sun in one year.

• An imaginary line that separates the northern and southern hemispheres.

• An imaginary line that runs from the North Pole and the South Pole.

• The spinning of the Earth on its axis.

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If it is summer here in Lexington, then what season would it be on the continent of Australia (southern hemisphere)?

• summer

• autumn

• spring

• winter

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