Solar System Test Review

1. What determines the measurement of a full year on Earth?

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Hemisphere

• Axis

  2. What determines the measurement of a day on Earth?  

• Hemisphere

• Axis

• Revolution

• Rotation

  3. Which best describes the seasons experienced in the Northern Hemisphere compared to the Southern Hemisphere?  

• The experience opposite seasons

• They experience the same seasons at the same time

• They do not ever experience similar seasons

• None of these

  4. Which is a frozen mass with a tail of trailing gases?  

• A meteor

• A comet

• An asteroid

• A planet

  5. If you observe a shooting star in space, what are you observing?  

• An asteroid

• A comet

• A meteor

• A planet

  6. The Earth’s axis is tilted   

• 45 degrees

• 23.5 degrees

• 13.5 degrees

• 90 degrees

  7. About how long does it take a new moon to become a full moon?  

• 2 weeks

• 2 days

• 1 month

• 2 months

  8. What is the circular motion around the Sun?  

• Rotation

• Orbit

• Axis

• Hemisphere

  9. What protects the Earth from the Sun’s radiation?  

• Other planets

• The moon

• The atmosphere

• Space

  10. Which best describes the order of the phases of the Moon?  

• New, waxing, full, waning

• New, full, waxing, waning

• New, waning, full, waxing

• Waxing, waning, full, new