2024 EES Final Exam

What is the center of our Solar System?

• Earth

• the moon

• the sun

What separates the inner planets from the outer planets?

• Leather Belt

• Asteroid belt

• Nothing

• Rocks

The spinning of Earth on its axis in a day is called

• perihelion

• aphelion

• rotation

• revolution

The yearlong movement of Earth around the sun is called

• aphelion

• perihelion

• rotation

• revolution

It cause unequal heating of the earth that leads to four seasons

• rotation

• revolution

• tilted Earth

• solar radiation

How does the tilt of the Earth’s axis affect the seasons?

• By changing the speed of the rotation of Earth

• By deflecting the harmful rays of radiation emitted by the sun

• By changing the amount of direct solar radiation reaching the surface

• By influencing the rate of chemical reactions occurring in the atmosphere

Which type of motion causes night / day? 

• Rotation
• Revolution
• Kepler's 1st Law
• Nutation

Lasts 24 hours

• Rotation
• Revolution
• Precession 
• Barycenter

Lasts 365 days

• Rotation
• Revolution
• Nutation
• Precession

A solstice event occurs when

• the sun's rays reach their highest or lowest point in respect to the equator

• the sun's rays shine most directly at the equator

• the Earth has it's longest period of daylight hours