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WorksheetsThe Sun, Moon and Earth
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 12mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What are tides?
a)
a wave
b)
Daily changes to the level of ocean water
c)
The sun's pull on Earth
d)
The moons pull on earth
2.
How do high tides form?
a)
the difference of levels of the ocean water during high tide and low tide
b)
the sun and the moon cause special tides
c)
where the water is drawn away from the moon
d)
when part of the ocean is directly facing the moon causing the water to bulge
3.
What is a Tidal range?
a)
the difference of the sun gravitational pull and the moons
b)
the difference of the water levels from high tide and low tide
c)
Neap
d)
Spring
4.
Which tides has the highest daily tidal range?
a)
Neap
b)
Spring
c)
High
d)
Low
5.
The spin of a body on it's axis
a)
Orbit
b)
Revolution
c)
Axial tilt
d)
Rotation
6.
The path that a body follows around another body
a)
Axis
b)
Orbit
c)
Revolution
d)
Rotation
7.
An imaginary line that connects the north and south poles
a)
Axial Tilt
b)
Revolution
c)
Axis
d)
Orbit
8.
One complete trip around an orbit
a)
Revolution
b)
Orbit
c)
Rotation
d)
Axis
9.
What is the Earth's axial tilt?
a)
23.5 degrees
b)
25.3 degrees
c)
253 degrees
d)
23.9 degrees
10.
How long does it take the Earth to make one full rotation?
a)
24 hrs
b)
24 min
c)
24 sec
d)
365 days
11.
How long does it take for the Earth to make one full revolution around the sun?
a)
365.25 days
b)
88 days
c)
224.7 days
d)
686.93 days
12.
Johannes Kepler developed the three law of
a)
gravity
b)
Planetary motion
13.
who discovered why the planet farther away were slower than the planets closer to the sun
a)
Johannes Kepler
b)
Pytheas
c)
Sir Isaac Newton
d)
SIr Isac Newton
14.
When is the Vernal Equinox?
a)
March 5th
b)
March 20th
c)
April 6th
d)
February 14th
15.
When is the winter solstice?
a)
December 21st or 22nd
b)
March 20th
c)
June 21st or 22nd
d)
September 22nd
16.
When is the Autumn Equinox?
a)
September 22nd or 23rd
b)
June 21st or 22nd
c)
December 21st or 22nd
d)
March 20th
17.
When the moon come between the sun and the Earth
a)
Solar Eclipse
b)
Lunar Eclipse
18.
When the Earth come between the sun and the moon
a)
Lunar Eclipse
b)
Solar Eclipse
c)
Lunar Cycle
d)
Waning
19.
What is waning?
a)
to get smaller
b)
to get larger
20.
What are the 4 moon phases?
a)
Full moon, Gibbous Moon, New
moon, Crescent Moon
moon, Crescent Moon
b)
Super moon, New moon, Lunar Cycle, super nova
c)
Super nova, sun, stars, Full moon
d)
Star, Crescent, square, triangle
21.
The moment when the suns path passes the celestial equator is called
a)
Equinox
b)
Solstice
c)
Axial Tilt
d)
Equator
22.
The point which the sun is as far north or as far south from the equator is called
a)
Equinox
b)
Solstice
c)
Axis
d)
High tides
23.
What does the planets orbit move in a
a)
Eclipse
b)
Ellipse
c)
counter clockwise
d)
clockwise
24.
What is Waxing?
a)
to get smaller
b)
to get larger
25.
what is 1+1
a)
11
b)
2
c)
:)
d)
i dont know
26.
All panets rotate counter clockwise except...
a)
Uranus
b)
Mars
c)
Mercury
d)
Venus
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