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WorksheetsEarth Moon And Sun
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
Earth is closest to the sun when it is summer in the?
a)
S. Hemisphere
b)
N. Hemisphere
c)
W. hemisohere
d)
E.hemisphere
2.
When it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, it is winter in the ?
a)
equator
b)
Northern H.
c)
Western H.
d)
Eastern H.
3.
In June, there are fewer hours of daylight and less direct sunlight in the?
a)
Southern Hemisphere
b)
Northern Hemisphere
c)
Western Hemisphere
d)
Eastern Hemisphere
4.
Each of the two days of the year when neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun is called a(n) ?
a)
winter solstice
b)
summer solstice
c)
rotation
d)
equinox
5.
What happens in March 21?
a)
winter solctise
b)
summer solstice
c)
vernal equinox
d)
autumn equinox
6.
what causes day and night?
a)
rotation
b)
revolution
c)
solstice
d)
equinox
7.
why does earth have seasons?
a)
because the sun goes to some places a some dates because he feels like it
b)
because its axis is tilted as it revolves around the sun
c)
because
8.
what happens after vernal equinox?
a)
the days get longer
b)
the days get shorter
c)
the days stay the same lenght
d)
the earth moves closer to the sun
9.
what is rotation?
a)
the spinning of earth on its axis
b)
the imaginary line that passes through earths center.
c)
the movement of one object around another
d)
when the sun goes around earth 4 times
10.
what is a calendar?
a)
a system that allows us to see when the next full moon will come
b)
a system that ONLY says when an equinox will happen
c)
the northern hemisphere
d)
a system of organizing time that defines the beginning, length, and division of a year
11.
What is revolution?
a)
a day were the sun appears farthest north of the equator once each year and farthest south each year
b)
the movement of one object around another
12.
What is solstice"
a)
a day were day and nigh are each about 12 hours long everywere
b)
a day were the sun appears farthest north of the equator once each year and farthest south once each year
c)
a day when the ancient people come to life!
d)
a cold mixture of dust and ice that gives you off a long trail of light as it approaches the sun
13.
What is an Equinox?
a)
a body that orbits a planet
b)
a giant ball of hot gas
c)
a day were day and nigh are each about 12 hours long everywere
14.
What is orbit?
a)
Earths calendar name
b)
Earths gravity name
c)
another word for earths sun
d)
Earths path
15.
What is a satelite?
a)
A body that orbits a planet
b)
an object that orbits a sun
c)
a piece of glass in a space shuttle in earth
16.
What is a Comet?
a)
a pattern or group of stars that people imagined to represent a figure, animal, or object
b)
a cold mixture of dust and ice that gives you off a long trail of light as it approaches the sun
c)
a system of organizing time that defines the beginning, length, and division of a year
d)
a rock made out of metal that hits earth every 100000 years
17.
what is a constellaion?
a)
a pattern or group of stars that people imagined to represent a figure, animal, or object
b)
the spinning of earth on its axis
18.
What is force?
a)
a push or pull
b)
a thing that makes you dance
c)
only a push
d)
only a pull
19.
what is gravity?
a)
the amount of
matter in an
object
b)
a force that attracts all object with mass
towards each other
c)
the measure of the
force
of gravity on an
object
d)
the
tendency of an object to resist a change in motion
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