Earth's Patterns and Space

Stars Are _______________

• Balls of gas

• Balls of flame

• Stars

• 1 and 2

what is a meteor

• A meteoroid when it enters a planet's atmosphere.

• An asteroid in the suns gravity

• A rock

• A planet

Ceres is a __________

• Star

• Asteroid

• Planet

• Dwarf planet

• 2 and 4

What is a asteroid

• A small rocky object orbiting in space.

• A meteoroid.

• A meteor.

• A comet.

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Where are many asteroids located.

• Mercurys surface

• Asteroid belt

• meteor belt

• asteroid ring

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What is the oort cloud

• The known end of the solar system

• An asteroid belt

• Dust in space

• none of the above

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Polaris is a star

• True

• False

What does the diagram show?

• Earth's rotation

• Earth's revolution

• Sun's rotation

• Sun's revolution

What pattern is Tyra able to show with her model?

• The spinning globe shows how the sun appears to rise and set.

• The light shows how Earth revolves around the sun.

• The stationary globe shows the different moon phases.

• The light shows the lengths of shadows at different periods in the day.

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Which is the best explanation for the pattern the students observed?

• The sun lights only half of Earth, so shadow lengths are always close to the same measure.

• As the sun revolves around Earth, it shines on different areas, creating shadows.

• When the sun was low in the horizon, the shadow was long. As the sun rose, the shadow got shorter.

• Earth moved closer to the sun during its revolution, causing the shadows to get longer. As Earth moved away, the shadows got shorter.

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