Seasons and Tides Vocab quiz

What is the half of the Earth that is north of the Equator?

• Northern Hemisphere

• Southern Hemisphere

• Eastern Hemisphere

• Western Hemisphere

What is the orbit of one object around another object?

• Spin

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Circle

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What is the half of the Earth that is south of the Equator?

• Eastern Hemisphere

• Northern Hemisphere

• Western Hemisphere

• Southern Hemisphere

What is the imaginary line that divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

• Elevator

• Prime meridian

• Equator

• Equinox

What is it when Earth's rotation axis is tilted directly toward or away from the Sun?

• Equinox

• Solstice

• Tide

• Season

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What is it when Earth's rotation axis is tilted neither toward or away from the Sun?

• Tide

• Solstice

• Equinox

• Season

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What is it when the ocean's surface reaches it's lowest point?

• Low tide

• High tide

• Spring tide

• Neap tide

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What is the average height of the ocean's surface?

• Height

• Tidal Range

• Sea Level

• Tide

What is it when the ocean's surface reaches its highest point?

• Low tide

• High tide

• Neap tide

• Spring tide

What is the rise and fall of the water levels in oceans, caused by the gravitational pull of he Moon and Sun, and the rotation of the Earth?

• Tide

• High tide

• Low tide

• Neap tide