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What season is letter A? (Pay attention to the HEMISPHERE and the direction of the TILT)

• Winter

• Summer

• Spring

• Fall

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Which season is taking place in the Northern Hemisphere in Position 1?

• Winter

• Spring

• Summer

• Fall

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Which season is taking place in the Northern Hemisphere in Position 2? (Think about what season it is at position 1--what comes after that?)

• Winter

• Spring

• Summer

• Fall

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What causes more heat,  indirect sunlight or direct sunlight?

• indirect

• direct

What would seasons be like if Earth's axis were straight up and down?

• Seasons would be the same.

• Seasons would be more extreme.

• There would be no seasons.

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A light year is the 

• distance that light travels in one year

• Speed at which light travels 

• Distance between the sun and the earth. 

• Distance at which light no longer exists. 

What is an astronomical unit (A.U.)?

• the time it takes light to travel one year

• the distance between the Earth and the Moon

• the distance between the Earth and the Sun

• the distance between the Earth and the Neptune

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What do we use astronomical units to measure?

• distances in our solar system
  

• How far our solar system is from others in our galaxy.
  

• The distances between galaxies. 
  

• The distance from one side of the universe to the other. 

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Why do we use light years and astronomical units to measure distances in space?

• Scientists want to sound smart.

• Hubble discovered these units and wanted to use them.

• Space is too small to use km, it wouldn't make sense.

• Space is too big, vast, enormous to use traditional units, like miles.

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Which of the following scenarios would be appropriate to use light years?

• From the sun to Earth

• from Earth to Neptune

• from the Milky Way to its closest galaxy

• Asteroid Belt to the Kuiper Belt