Earth, Moon, & Sun Review

Name:

1. What does the earth complete every 365 days?

• rotation
• revolution
• seasons

2. What rotates around the earth?

• all stars
• the sun
• the moon

3. About every month the ________revolves around the earth.

• seasons
• axis
• moon

4. Why does the earth have seasons?

• the equator splitting the earth in half
• the planets revolving around earth
• the tilt on it's axis

5. The __________of the moon are caused by its position related to the earth and sun.

• axis
• phases
• craters

6. Which two astronomers believed that all planets went around the earth?

• Galileo
• Ptomely
• Aristotle

7. Which phases of the moon reflects no light?

• waxing gibbous
• wanning crescent
• new moon

8. What causes the moon the shine in the sky?

• It has it's own light that makes it shine.
• It shines because it is always close to the sun.
• It reflects the suns light.

9. Our sun is an __________size star that is about 4.6 billion years old.

• average
• larger
• tiny