OLS Science 5th 1.8 Sun Earth and Moon Unit Assessment

The earth completes one 

________

 on its axis every 24 hours, while it completes one orbit around the

________

, or revolution, every year.

• revolution, moon
• rotation, sun
• turn, galaxy
• spin, stars

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The

__________

orbits the earth. It makes one revolution around the earth and one rotation, in approximately one ________.

• Venus, week
• Sun, year
• Moon, month
• Mars, day

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Choose the position of the moon, sun and Earth during a lunar eclipse.

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• 

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_______ is the apparent changing shapes of the Moon 

• New Moon
• Crescent Moon
• Full Moon
• Moon Phases

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Match the following

• first quarter

• 
• new moon

• 
• Waning crescent

• 
• waxing crescent

• 
• full moon

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The half of the earth that is facing the sun has daylight.

True or False

• True

• False

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What is one way the tilt of the Earth’s axis helps cause the seasons?

• The tilt of the axis brings the Earth closer to the moon.

• The tilt causes the sun to shine more directly on the part of the Earth where it is summer and less directly where it is winter.

• The tilt causes the amount of daylight to stay the same at the equator year-round.

• The tilt causes the sun to shine for a longer time each day where it is winter and for a shorter time each day where it is summer.

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What makes it possible to see the bright part of the moon from the earth?

• Light from Earth shines on the moon’s surface making it visible.

• The moon makes its own light, which can be seen from Earth.

• Light from the sun is reflected off the moon’s surface, making it visible.

• The moon absorbs light during the day and reflects it at night.

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Which statement about the surface of the moon is true?

• There is no air, wind, liquid water, or life on the moon’s surface.

  
  

• There is water and air, but no life on the moon’s surface.

  
  

• It is very windy on the moon’s surface.

  
  

• There are liquid seas on the moon’s surface.

  
  

When it is summer in the northern hemisphere it is winter south of the equator.

• True

• False

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