Unit 1 - Chapter 2 Test

1. Why is the sun up sometimes, but not other times? Use RACE Restate the question Answer the question Cite you sources Explain your answer

2. If Earth is spinning, which way is up? Which way is down? Use RACE Restate the question Answer the question Cite you sources Explain your answer

3. Describe any patterns that are depicted in the artifact? Can you identify any sections?

4. Which picture has arrows that correctly show the way the rocks would fall if each person dropped their rock?

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5. A ______ is a group of stars that is identified according to patterns.

• A. star
• B. sun
• C. pattern
• D. constellation

6. Which of the following images correctly shows "up" and "down"?

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7. Earth spins on its axis once each day. We call this ______.

• A. Orbit
• B. Rotation
• C. Gravity
• D. Revolution

8. Earth pulls objects, including people, down toward the ground with the force of ____________.

• A. spinning
• B. gravity
• C. visualizing

9. If Earth rotates around one complete time, it is one day later.

• A. True
• B. False

10. True or False. Earth spins once each day. We face the sun in nighttime, and we face away from the sun at daytime.

• True
• False