Quiz about MAAP: Earth and Space

Question 1

What is the primary reason for Earth's seasons?

Accepted Answer

Earth's tilted axis

Answer

Earth's rotation

Answer

The equator

Answer

Earth's magnetic field

Question 2

How much is Earth tilted?

Accepted Answer

23.5 degrees

Answer

50 degrees

Answer

32.5 degrees

Answer

12.25 degrees

Question 3

What is the term for the sun's energy striking Earth straight on?

Accepted Answer

Direct

Answer

Indirect

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Angle

Answer

Diagonal

Question 4

What is the term for the sun's energy striking Earth at an angle?

Accepted Answer

Indirect

Answer

Direct

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Head-on

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Center

Question 5

What hemisphere do we live in?

Accepted Answer

Northern

Answer

Southern

Question 6

What is the correct order of Earth's seasons?

Accepted Answer

Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall

Answer

Winter, Fall, Summer, Spring

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Summer, Winter, Fall, Spring

Answer

Spring, Fall, Winter, Summer

Question 7

What season is it in the Northern Hemisphere when the northern axis is tilted toward the sun?

Accepted Answer

Summer

Answer

Winter

Answer

Spring

Answer

Fall

Question 8

What season is it in the Northern Hemisphere when the northern axis is tilted away from the sun?

Accepted Answer

Winter

Answer

Spring

Answer

Summer

Answer

Fall

Question 9

What season is it in the Southern Hemisphere when it is Summer in the Northern Hemisphere?

Accepted Answer

Winter

Answer

Summer

Answer

Spring

Answer

Fall

Question 10

What season(s) is it when the axis is NOT pointed toward or away from the sun?

Accepted Answer

Spring

Accepted Answer

Fall

Answer

Summer

Answer

Winter

Question 11

What is the exact day called when the Northern Hemisphere receives the maximum amount of daylight?

Accepted Answer

Summer Solstice

Answer

Eclipse

Answer

Fall Equinox

Answer

Winter Solstice

Question 12

What is the exact day called when the Northern Hemisphere receives the minimum amount of daylight?

Accepted Answer

Winter solstice

Answer

Summer solstice

Answer

Fall Equinox

Answer

Spring Equinox

Question 13

What is the day called when the planet gets 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night?

Accepted Answer

Equinox

Answer

Solstice

Answer

Season

Answer

Eclipse

Question 14

The Earths seasons is caused by the Earths tilt and revolution around the sun.

Accepted Answer

True

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False

Question 15

This is the study of celestial bodies and extra-terrestrial phenomena.

Accepted Answer

Astronomy

Answer

Order of the Solar System

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There are _____________ planets in our solar system.

Answer

Revolution

Question 16

Which planet looks like a red dot in the sky and is called the Red Planet?

Accepted Answer

Mars

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Mercury

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Venus

Answer

Neptune

Question 17

Uranus is called the _______________ because it's the coldest planet in our solar system.

Accepted Answer

Ice Giant

Answer

Gas Giant

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Freezing Giant

Answer

Blue Giant

Question 18

This is the motion of an object as it moves around another object in orbit. (a year)

Accepted Answer

Revolution

Answer

Jupiter is the ___________ planet in our solar system.

Answer

Orbit

Answer

Sun

Question 19

There are _____________ planets in our solar system

Accepted Answer

8

Answer

4

Answer

10

Answer

12

Question 20

This is the star at the center of the solar system around which the Earth and other matter orbit.

Accepted Answer

Sun

Answer

Uranus is called the _______________ because it's the coldest planet in our solar system.

Answer

Which planet looks like a red dot in the sky and is called the Red Planet?

Answer

The four outer planets are called _____________________ because they are made of gases like hydrogen and helium.

Question 21

This is a massive ball of plasma that shines because of thermonuclear fusion in its core.

Accepted Answer

Star

Answer

Revolution

Answer

Which planet looks like a red dot in the sky and is called the Red Planet?

Answer

Which planet is the farthest from the Sun?

Question 22

Which planet is the farthest from the Sun?

Accepted Answer

Neptune

Answer

Saturn

Answer

Uranus

Answer

Jupiter

Question 23

This is the sun and the celestial objects bound to it by gravity. This includes the eight planets and their 166 known moons, four dwarf planets, and billions of small bodies, including asteroids, comets meteoroids, and interplanetary dust.

Accepted Answer

Solar System

Answer

Revolution

Answer

The Earth takes ___________ to rotate on its axis.

Answer

Astronomy

Question 24

The four inner planets are called __________ because they are rocky, warm, and have craters.

Accepted Answer

Terrestrial planets

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Gas Giants

Answer

Ice Giants

Answer

Hot planets

Question 25

Jupiter is the ___________ planet in our solar system.

Accepted Answer

Largest

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Smallest

Answer

Hottest

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Coldest

Question 26

The four outer planets are called _____________________ because they are made of gases like hydrogen and helium.

Accepted Answer

Gas Giants

Answer

Liquid Giants

Answer

Terrestrial Planets

Answer

White Giants

Question 27

This is the motion of an object as it moves around its own axis. (a day)

Accepted Answer

Rotation

Answer

The four inner planets are called __________ because they are rocky, warm, and have craters.

Answer

Astronomy

Answer

Revolution

Question 28

This is the path which one body follows around another body in space.

Accepted Answer

Orbit

Answer

The Earth takes ___________ to rotate on its axis.

Answer

There are _____________ planets in our solar system.

Answer

Constellation

Question 29

The Earth takes ___________ to rotate on its axis.

Accepted Answer

24 hours

Answer

48 hours

Answer

36 hours

Answer

72 hours

Question 30

Order of of the solar system

Accepted Answer

Mercury, Venus Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Answer

Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury

Answer

Mars, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Question 31

This is a pattern in the sky formed by stars.

Accepted Answer

Constellation

Answer

Jupiter is the ___________ planet in our solar system.

Answer

Which planet is the farthest from the Sun?

Answer

Rotation

Question 32

Earth has seasons because...

Accepted Answer

- Tilt of Earth

Answer

Sun

Answer

23.5

Answer

East

Question 33

From Earth, we see _________________ of the moon.

Accepted Answer

50%

Answer

mostly lighted; partially lighted like a small arc.

Answer

Appearance

Answer

23.5

Question 34

The Earth makes one __________ every 24 hours.

Accepted Answer

Rotation

Answer

West

Answer

Earth's rotation

Answer

Waxing

Question 35

The Earth rotates on its axis at ________ degress.

Accepted Answer

23.5

Answer

The visible surface area decreasing

Answer

Every 29 days

Answer

Day and night is caused by Earth's rotation on its axis.

Question 36

When discussing the moon, phase change refer to changes in ______________.

Accepted Answer

Appearance

Answer

East

Answer

Long, Short, Long

Answer

mostly lighted; partially lighted like a small arc.

Question 37

What causes the sun to appear to move across the sky?

Accepted Answer

Earth's rotation

Answer

Appearance

Answer

West

Answer

A decrease in the amount of lighted moon.

Question 38

The sun sets in the ________________.

Accepted Answer

West

Answer

Earth's rotation

Answer

Waxing

Answer

mostly lighted; partially lighted like a small arc.

Question 39

The Earth revolves around the _________.

Accepted Answer

Sun

Answer

- Tilt of Earth

Answer

Long, Short, Long

Answer

Day and night is caused by Earth's rotation on its axis.

Question 40

From full moon to new moon, you see ____________________.

Accepted Answer

A decrease in the amount of lighted moon.

Answer

Every 29 days

Answer

The visible surface area decreasing

Answer

West

Question 41

When the visible portion of the moon is INCREASING, the moon is ___________________

Accepted Answer

Waxing

Answer

Appearance

Answer

Day and night is caused by Earth's rotation on its axis.

Answer

23.5

Question 42

The moon completes one complete revolution around the Earth _________________.

Accepted Answer

Every 29 days

Answer

Earth's rotation

Answer

23.5

Answer

Appearance

Question 43

Gibbous is when the moon is ______________, the crescent moon is when the moon is __________________.

Accepted Answer

mostly lighted; partially lighted like a small arc.

Answer

Rotation

Answer

Earth's rotation

Answer

23.5

Question 44

The sun rises in the ____________.

Accepted Answer

East

Answer

23.5

Answer

West

Answer

Rotation

Question 45

Waning moon refers to ______________.

Accepted Answer

The visible surface area decreasing

Answer

mostly lighted; partially lighted like a small arc.

Answer

23.5

Answer

Earth's rotation

Question 46

How does the length of shadows change throughout the day, from sunrise to sunset?

Accepted Answer

Long, Short, Long

Answer

A decrease in the amount of lighted moon.

Answer

Appearance

Answer

Sun

Question 47

What causes day and night?

Accepted Answer

Day and night is caused by Earth's rotation on its axis.

Answer

East

Answer

- Tilt of Earth

Answer

Rotation

Question 48

Earth has seasons because...

Accepted Answer

- Tilt of Earth

Answer

Sun

Answer

23.5

Answer

East

Question 49

From Earth, we see _________________ of the moon.

Accepted Answer

50%

Answer

mostly lighted; partially lighted like a small arc.

Answer

Appearance

Answer

23.5

Question 50

The Earth makes one __________ every 24 hours.

Accepted Answer

Rotation

Answer

West

Answer

Earth's rotation

Answer

Waxing

Question 51

The Earth rotates on its axis at ________ degress.

Accepted Answer

23.5

Answer

The visible surface area decreasing

Answer

Every 29 days

Answer

Day and night is caused by Earth's rotation on its axis.

Question 52

When discussing the moon, phase change refer to changes in ______________.

Accepted Answer

Appearance

Answer

East

Answer

Long, Short, Long

Answer

mostly lighted; partially lighted like a small arc.

Question 53

What causes the sun to appear to move across the sky?

Accepted Answer

Earth's rotation

Answer

Appearance

Answer

West

Answer

A decrease in the amount of lighted moon.

Question 54

The sun sets in the ________________.

Accepted Answer

West

Answer

Earth's rotation

Answer

Waxing

Answer

mostly lighted; partially lighted like a small arc.

Question 55

The Earth revolves around the _________.

Accepted Answer

Sun

Answer

- Tilt of Earth

Answer

Long, Short, Long

Answer

Day and night is caused by Earth's rotation on its axis.

Question 56

From full moon to new moon, you see ____________________.

Accepted Answer

A decrease in the amount of lighted moon.

Answer

Every 29 days

Answer

The visible surface area decreasing

Answer

West

Question 57

When the visible portion of the moon is INCREASING, the moon is ___________________

Accepted Answer

Waxing

Answer

Appearance

Answer

Day and night is caused by Earth's rotation on its axis.

Answer

23.5

Question 58

The moon completes one complete revolution around the Earth _________________.

Accepted Answer

Every 29 days

Answer

Earth's rotation

Answer

23.5

Answer

Appearance

Question 59

Gibbous is when the moon is ______________, the crescent moon is when the moon is __________________.

Accepted Answer

mostly lighted; partially lighted like a small arc.

Answer

Rotation

Answer

Earth's rotation

Answer

23.5

Question 60

The sun rises in the ____________.

Accepted Answer

East

Answer

23.5

Answer

West

Answer

Rotation

Question 61

Waning moon refers to ______________.

Accepted Answer

The visible surface area decreasing

Answer

mostly lighted; partially lighted like a small arc.

Answer

23.5

Answer

Earth's rotation

Question 62

How does the length of shadows change throughout the day, from sunrise to sunset?

Accepted Answer

Long, Short, Long

Answer

A decrease in the amount of lighted moon.

Answer

Appearance

Answer

Sun

Question 63

What causes day and night?

Accepted Answer

Day and night is caused by Earth's rotation on its axis.

Answer

East

Answer

- Tilt of Earth

Answer

Rotation

Question 64

What phase is this??

Accepted Answer

New moon

Answer

waxing cresent

Answer

full moon

Answer

Waning gibbous

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