Earth's Rotation

The spinning movement of earth around itself on its axis is called __________.

• summer

• Earth's rotation

• seasons

The spinning movement of the Earth about its axis is called the Earth's _____

• revolution

• rotation

• precession

• orbit

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The sun goes across the sky from east to west because the Earth is rotating/spinning and sometimes we face the sun and sometimes we don't!

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The Earth's rotation is what gives us day and night everyday, all year.

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The Earth is rotating on its axis, creating day and night, at the same time it's revolving all the way around the Sun.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

When the Earth completes a full orbit around the Sun, it has completed _____ rotations or days

• 7

• 30

• 91

• 365 1/4

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What looks to be the motion of the Sun in the sky is really caused by the motion (rotation) of _____

• the Earth

• the stars

• the planets

• the Earth's axis

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Where does the sun go when we can't see it?

• Mars

• Starbucks

• the earth rotates and the sun is facing the other side of the earth

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

If you are on the side of the Earth facing TO THE SUN it is _____.

• day

• night

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The Earth is rotating AND revolving all the time.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1