Space Vocabulary Multiple Choice

What is the term for the Earth spinning on its own axis?

• A) Revolution

• B) Rotation

• C) Orbit

• D) Gravity

What do we call the path that the Earth takes as it moves around the Sun?

• A) Axis

• B) Orbit

• C) Rotation

• D) Shadow

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

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What is the name for the imaginary line that the Earth spins around?

• A) Orbit

• B) Axis

• C) Shadow

• D) Crater

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is the force that keeps the planets in orbit around the Sun?

• A) Atmosphere

• B) Rotation

• C) Gravity

• D) Revolution

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

What is the term that means one object moving around another object?

• Rotation

• Crater

• Revolution

• Shadow

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

What is the term for the different shapes of the Moon we see from Earth?

• A) Moon Phases

• B) Solar System

• C) Crater

• D) Lunar

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What do we call the time when the Sun appears to rise in the eastern horizon?

• A) Sunset

• B) Sunrise

• C) Shadow

• D) Seasons

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What do we call the time when the Sun appears to sink in the western horizon?

• A) Sunset

• B) Sunrise

• C) Shadow

• D) Seasons

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NGSS.5-ESS1-2

What is the term for the collection of planets, moons, and other celestial bodies that orbit our Sun?

• A) Atmosphere

• B) Solar System

• C) Gravity

• D) Moon Phases

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What do we call the dark area that appears behind an object when it blocks light?

• A) Orbit

• B) Shadow

• C) Crater

• D) Axis