Earth Cycles Review

What causes seasons?

• Rotation & Tilt

• Rotation & Revolution

• Revolution & Tilt

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When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it is ________ in the Southern Hemisphere.

• Winter

• Spring

• Summer

• Fall

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Which best describes day and night in winter?

• Long days, short nights

• Short days, long nights

• Equal days and nights

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Which description represents a first quarter moon?

• 50% illumination, light is on the right side

• 75% illumination, light is on the right side

• 50% illumination, light is on the left side

• 25% illumination, light is on the left side

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Which picture shows a waning gibbous?

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In summer, the axis of the earth is pointed away or toward the sun?

• towards
• up
• down
• away

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This picture shows the position of the Sun, Earth, and the Moon on one night.

What moon phase did people on Earth see on this night?

• new moon

• first quarter

• full moon

• third quarter

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Which of these locations on Earth experiences the least change in the number of daylight hours throughout the year?

• Equator
  
• North Pole
  
• Tropic of Cancer
  
• Tropic of Capricorn
  

What type of tides would this arrangement of earth-moon-sun create?

• neap tide
• spring tide
• new moon tide
• full moon tide

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The diagram shows four positions in Earth's orbit around the sun. The Northern Hemisphere experiences the beginning of spring when Earth is in...

• Position 1

• Position 2

• Position 3

• Position 4

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