Earth's Cycles

What season is #4 in the Northern Hemisphere?

• Summer

• Fall

• Winter

• Spring

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• A
• B
• C
• D

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

• full moon tide

• new moon tide

• neap tide

• spring tide

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What causes Earth's day and night?

• Earth's rotation

• Earth's revolution

• Earth's tilted axis

• Earth having a magnetic field

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What is the imaginary line that separates the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?

• Equator

• Prime Meridian

The movement of one object around another is a _______________. 

• revolution

• axis

• rotation

• ellipse

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Earth would not have seasons if it —

• no longer tilted on its axis

• stopped rotating on its axis

• took an additional month to orbit the sun

• revolved around the sun in the opposite direction

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The spinning of Earth around its axis is called its _______________. 

• axis

• rotation

• revolution

• ellipse

A student observing the phases of the Moon over a one month period records the following partial data. According to the diagram, which phase of the Moon did the student miss observing?

• waxing gibbous

• first quarter

• waxing crescent

• waning crescent

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