Earth's Orbit and Rotation Vocabulary Quiz

An orbit is the path an object follows as it moves around another one.

• Earth's Rotation

• Earth's Orbit

• Stellar Parallax

• Sundial

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The action of the earth turning or spinning around its center.

• Earth's Orbit

• Foucault Pendulum

• Shadow

• Earth's Rotation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

1. A tool that provides evidence that the earth is rotating. 

• Geocentric Model

• Stellar Parallax

• Sundial

• Foucault Pendulum

An ancient model of the solar system which we know today is not correct.

• Geocentric Model

• Heliocentric Model

• Leap Year

• Sundial

1. A model of the solar system which puts the Sun at the center and says that the planets orbit around the sun. 

• Earth's Rotation

• Time Zone

• Geocentric Model

• Heliocentric Model

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

1. The apparent shift of position of some stars through the year.

• Leap year

• Time Zone

• Heliocentric Model

• Stellar Parallax

A year with one additional day added.

• Leap Year

• Time Zone

• Sundial

• Shadow

An area on Earth that has a specific time that all people living there can set their clocks to.

• TIme Zone

• Sundial

• Leap Year

• Shadow

An ancient tool used to tell time during the day.

• Time Zone

• Sundial

• Earth's Orbit

• Earth's Rotation

1. Our solar system is made up of the sun, eight planets, and their moons. 

• Shadow

• Solar System

• Sundial

• Stellar Parallax

Tags

NGSS.5-ESS1-2