Astronomy Part 2 Test Review

The reason eclipses not occur every month is because the moon's

• rate of rotation is 15 degrees each hour

• orbit is inclined to the Earth's orbit.

• changes in distance between the earth and sun

• period of revolution is 29.3 days

A high tide occurred at 8:00am on a beach. The next time a high tide will occur at this same beach would occur at approximately at :

• 8:00 am

• 8:30 am

• 8:00pm

• 8:30 pm

Why are there seasonal changes on Earth?

• rate of rotation of 15 degrees per hour

• the shape of the orbit around the sun

• The moon's rotation around the earth

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

What phase of the moon is number #2?

• First Quarter

• Full moon

• Last quarter

• Wanning Gibbous

Why do we see different phases of the moon each month?

• The moon's rotation and Earth's rotation

• The moon's revolution and Earth's revolution

• The moon's rotation and the Earth revolution

• The Moon's revolution and the Earth's rotation

A solar eclipse might be observed from earth when the earth is a which position?

• waxing gibbous

• Full moon

• New moon

• waning crescent

The primary reason ocean currents curve to the right in the North Hemisphere is due to:

• the rotation of Earth

• The revolution of the Earth

• the gravitational pull from the moon

• the salinity of the ocean

This gives us evidence that the Earth rotates.

• Change of seasons

• freely swinging foucault pendulum

• planets move throughout the year.

• the constellation appear to change monthly

What change would occur in NYS if the Earth's rate of rotation slowed down to 1/2 its current rate?

• the seasons would not change

• The days would be shorter

• The days would be longer

• The sun would rise in the northwest

This is evidence that the Earth revolves around the sun?

• the sun follows an apparent path during the day.

• the stars appear to circle the earth during the night

• Different constellation are visible from earth at different seasons of the year.

• parallelism