Rotation and Revolution

Elijah, Daniel, and Abigail are planning a trip around the sun in a spaceship. If they maintain a speed similar to Earth's, how long will it take them to complete one revolution around the sun?

• 100 days

• 365.25 days

• 24 hours

• 30 days

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Aiden, Emma, and Zoe are studying the Earth's orbit in their science class. They are discussing how the Earth's orbit affects the length of a year. Can you help them understand this?

• It causes the Earth to spin faster

• It has no effect on the length of a year

• It determines the number of days in a year

• It affects the length of a year by determining the time it takes for the Earth to complete one orbit around the sun.

The average speed the earth spins in a day is ___________miles per hour

Making a complete spin on an axis

• Rotation

• Revolutions

• Axis

An imaginary line that a sphere rotates around

• North Pole

• Axis

• Meridian

Earth's motion around the Sun: Earth takes 1 year or 365 days to make a single revolution

• Rotation

• Orbit

• Revolution

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It takes the Earth _______ to make a complete rotation in a day.

• 12 hours

• 24 hours

• 365 days

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Earth takes ________ days to make a single revolution

• 1

• 355

• 365

• 1000

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In order to accurately model the cause of day and night on Earth, the students must–

• lift the tennis ball off the table.

• rotate the tennis ball on its axis.

• rotate the basketball on its axis.

• move the tennis ball around the basketball.

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An imaginary line that Earth rotates around.

• Axis

• Mason Dixon Line

• North Pole

• Revolution