Patterns of Earth and Sky

How does Earth move?

• Earth only spins.

• Earth goes in orbit around the sun.

• Earth spins each day and orbits the sun each year.

• Earth doesn't move.

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What is the effect of Earth's acis tilted at 24 degrees as it rotates?

• It causes gravity.

• It causes weather and gives us our changes in seasons.

• It provides us with more sunlight.

• It helps plants to grow.

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If Earth spins, why don't we fall off?

• The atmosphere holds us in.

• Earth spins very slowly.

• Gravity pulls on all objects.

• Earth spins so fast, that the forces hold us in.

TRUE or FALSE We only see most stars at night because the sun is too bright in the daytime.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE or FALSE Earth pulls objects down toward the ground with the force of gravity, so up is away from the ground, anywhere on Earth.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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What is a scientist who studies stars, planets, and other objects the universe, but not on Earth?

• astronomer

• astrologist

• anthropologist

• archaeologist

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What is a solar system?

• The sun

• the planets that orbit the sun

• other objects that orbit the sun

• all of the above

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The pull between Earth and other objects, which acts without touching is called:

• spheres

• gravity

• spinning

• rotation

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What is a constellation?

• an arrangement of stars as seen from Earth

• an arrangement of galaxies

• an arrangement of plantes

• an arrangement of molecules

The sun looks bigger and brighter because it is much closer to Earth than the other stars?

• True

• False

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