Earth's Rotation Vocabulary

This spinning of a planet or a moon on its axis. (Earth takes 24 hours for one complete rotation.)

• Rotation

• Axis

• Atmosphere

• Crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

An imaginary line around which something spins is an...

• Rotation

• Axis

• Atmosphere

• Crust

The spinning of a planet or a moon on its axes (Earth takes 24 for one complete rotation).

• Axis

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Compass

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

An imaginary line around which something spins.

• Axis

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Compass

An imaginary line on which the Earth rotates is

• The North Pole

• The South Pole

• The axis

A complete spin on an axis is called

• a rotation

• a revolution

• a flux capacitor

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The spinning of a planet or moon on its axis is ______________

• axis

• rotation

• revolution

• compass

A line, real or imaginary, around which something spins is______________________

• shadow

• revolution

• rotation

• axis

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

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

• revolution

• rotation

• precession

• orbit

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

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

• the Earth

• the stars

• the planets

• the Earth's axis

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1