Science Short Night and Day

Why is sunlight important?

• A. Sunlight helps us see
• B. Sunlight helps plants grow
• C. Sunlight helps us sleep
• D. Both A and B

How long is a day?

• A. 365 hours
• B. 30 hours
• C. 24 hours
• D. 60 hours

How do we measure the length of a day?

• A. how long it takes the moon to orbit Earth
• B. how long it takes the Earth to spin around one time
• C. how long it takes the Earth to orbit the sun

What is the meaning of the word rotate?

• A. day
• B. bounce
• C. spin around
• D. night

When it is daytime on one half of Earth, it is night on the other.

• True
• False

During the middle of the day, the sun is ___________.

• A. low in the east
• B. low in the west
• C. directly overhead
• D. not visible

The sun actually moves across the sky.

• True
• False

Where is the sun at night?

• A. it moves to another part of the galaxy
• B. it is still there we just can’t see it
• C. it disappears at night
• D. it is visible in the night sky

Night and day are the exact same length everywhere on Earth all year long.

• True
• False

There are less daylight hours in the______.

• A. summer
• B. winter
• C. night
• D. ocean