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WorksheetsUnit 6, Pt. 3 Practice Questions
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
What causes the tides on Earth?
Storms at sea
The moon's gravity, but not the sun's
The sun's gravity, but not the moon's
Gravity by the moon and sun
What is day and night on Earth caused by?
Tilt of the Earth's axis
Earth's revolution around the sun
Earth's rotation on its axis
Eclipses
During what moon phase can a lunar eclipse occur?
New moon
First quarter
Waxing gibbous
Full moon
Which choice best explains why the Earth experiences seasons?
Temperatures on Earth vary from one location to another, causing seasons.
Cloud cover is heavier in the winter, blocking radiation from the Sun and creating seasons.
As Earth revolves, the hemisphere that is tilted toward the Sun receives more direct sunlight, causing seasons.
Earth’s orbit around the Sun is elliptical, and Earth is farther from the Sun in winter, resulting in seasons.
Which tide occurs when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are at a ninety-degree angle from each other?
Neap tide
Low tide
High tide
Spring tide
Which season is the Northern hemisphere experiencing at location #1 when the Earth and Sun are in the positions shown in the illustration?
Summer because the Northern Hemisphere being tilted away from the sun.
Winter because the Northern Hemisphere is being tilted away from the sun.
Summer due to the Southern Hemisphere being tilted towards the sun.
Winter due to the Northern hemisphere being tilted towards the sun.
What type of eclipse is down in the diagram?
Total lunar eclipse
Partial lunar eclipse
Total solar eclipse
Partial solar eclipse
What type of eclipse is occurring in the diagram?
solar
lunar
What type of tide would this arrangement of the Earth-moon-Sun create?
neap tide
spring tide
new moon tide
full moon tide
Which of the following statements about the Law of Gravity is correct?
Only large objects exert gravitational force on other objects.
Only objects that are close together exert gravitational forces on each other.
No objects exert gravitational force on other objects.
Every object exerts gravitational force on other objects.
According to the Law of Gravity, what does the force of gravity depend on?
It depends on distance between the objects and the mass of each object.
It depends on the density of each object.
It depends on the weight of each object.
It depends on the distance between the objects and the speed at which they are moving.
Based on the Law of Gravity, in which of the following scenarios would the gravitational attraction be the greatest between two objects with the same mass?
It would be the greatest when they are 1.2 meters apart.
It would be the greatest when they are 1 meter apart.
It would be the greatest when they are 15 meters apart.
It would be the greatest when they are 5 meters apart.
A person would weigh more on Jupiter than on the Earth because . . .
Jupiter has more mass, and therefore more gravity
Jupiter has less mass, and therefore more gravity
Jupiter has more mass, and therefore less gravity
Jupiter has less mass and therefore less gravity
What is weight?
A measure of the force of gravity acting on an object.
A measure of how much matter is in an object.
A measure of how much space something takes up.
A measure of how large something is.
The mass of an object would ___________ if it went from Earth to the moon.
stay the same
decrease
increase
double
Which of the following correctly describes the difference between mass and weight?
Mass measures how much space something takes up, weight measures how large something is.
Only mass is able to be measured.
Mass is always constant for the same object, while weight depends on the gravitational force acting on it.
Weight is always constant and mass can change depending on location.
A person’s mass on the moon is 70 kg, the same as it is on the earth. What would be true about this person’s weight?
The person would weigh zero on the moon because there is no gravity on the moon.
The person would weigh more on the moon because the moon is closer to the sun.
The person would weigh less on the moon because there is less gravity on the moon.
The person would weigh the same on the moon because weight stays the same as mass.
The gravitational attraction between the Sun and each of the planets is responsible for which of the following?
The size of the planets.
The presence or absence of water on the planets.
The number of planets that can orbit the Sun.
The orbit paths of the planets around the Sun.
Which of the following is not caused by gravity?
An object’s mass
An object’s direction of motion
An object’s acceleration
An object’s shape
The two factors that combine to keep the planets in orbit are:
Gravity and speed.
Speed and mass.
Mass and inertia.
Gravity and inertia.
