Shadows and the Earth's Rotation

What does the position of the sun determine about a tree's shadow?

• Its color

• Its length

• Its width

• Its brightness

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NGSS.5-ESS1-2

What is the effect of Earth's tilt on sunlight?

• It makes sunlight disappear.

• It changes the amount of sunlight different parts receive.

• It makes sunlight constant everywhere.

• It changes the color of sunlight.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What is a source?

• The beginning or origin of something

• A type of animal

• A kind of food

• A type of weather

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NGSS.MS-PS1-3

A "sundial" is used for (a)  

• telling time

• measuring distance

• indicating direction

• calculating speed

The word associated with the movement of planets around the sun is (a)  

• Gravity

• Orbit
• Rotation

• Revolution

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Earth's tilt affects how much sunlight parts of the Earth receive.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

When we are tilted ___ the sun, we receive ___ hours of sunlight.

• towards, less

• away, more

• The Earth's tilt does not relate to how many hours of sunlight we receive

• towards, more

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Look at the sun. Where will the tree's shadow be?

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NGSS.5-ESS1-2

Look at the sun. Where will the tree's shadow be?

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NGSS.5-ESS1-2

When is your shadow the shortest?

• morning

• noon

• late at night

• your shadow stays the same

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1