4th Grade Solar System Review

Summer Solstice is the beginning of summer. It is the longest day of the year. This is when each hemisphere gets the most sunlight of the year. When is it?

CHOOSE TWO

• June 21 in the Northern Hemisphere

• December 22 in the Southern Hemisphere

• April 21 in the Northern Hemisphere

• September 22 in the Southern Hemisphere

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Which part of the Earth receives the most sunlight throughout the entire year?

• North Pole

• South Pole

• the Equator

• The Southern Hemisphere

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The Earth ______________around the Sun.

• revolves
• rotates

• spins

• flies

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The Earth _________ on its axis.

• rotates
• revolves

• orbits

• flies

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The Earth is tilted.

• True

• False

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This moon is in the _____________ ________________ phase.

• waxing gibbous

• waning crescent

• new moon

• waning gibbous

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This moon is in the __________ _____________ phase.

• waning crescent

• waxing gibbous

• waning gibbous

• full moon

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What moon phase comes AFTER a Full Moon?

• Waxing Gibbous

• Waning Gibbous

• Waning Crescent

• First Quarter

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A telescope in space can...

• give us clear pictures without light pollution

• help us find aliens

• land on earth and take pictures

__________________ causes day and night.

• rotation

• revolves

• orbit

• magic

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