Chapter 11 Lesson 1 Guided Notes Quiz

Earth rotates from:

• north to south

• south to north

• east to west

• west to east

Each planet's orbit follows an ______________ path around the sun.

• circular

• elliptical

• squared

• triangular

The imaginary line running through the center of Earth from North Pole to South Pole is called the:

• equator

• prime meridian

• axis

• poles

This is the order of the first four planets starting with the closest to the sun:

• Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

• Venus, Mercury, Mars, Earth

• Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars

• Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury

A day on Saturn lasts:

• 30 years

• 10 hours

• 26 hours

• 53 days

A year on Neptune takes:

• 88 days

• 687 days

• 248 years

• 165 years

A year on Earth takes:

• 24 hours

• 365 days

• 7 days

• 635 days

Does Jupiter rotate faster or slower than Earth?

• faster

• slower

• It rotates at the same speed.

Who discovered that a planet's orbital speed decreases as its distance from the sun increases?

• Machiavelli

• Kepler

• Copernicus

• Galileo

What is the tilt of Earth's axis?

• 23.5 degrees

• 27 degrees

• 24 degrees

• 0 degrees