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WorksheetsEarth and the Solar System
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
What are the two factors that affect the force of gravity?
Mass and distance
Inertia and speed
Mass and light
Distance and inertia
What force(s) create orbits?
Mass and distance
Action-reaction law and gravity
A combination of the sideways motion of the orbiting object (inertia) and gravity
Gravity
What do Venus, Mercury, Earth and Mars have in common
They all have liquid water on them.
They are all terrestrial planets.
They are all gas giants.
They all have a sizeable atmosphere.
What season is shown in this picture in the Northern Hemisphere?
Summer
Winter
Spring
Fall
Which of the following statements is correct?
The left side of Earth is experiencing night and the top half is experiencing summer
The bottom half of Earth is experiencing night and you can't tell what season it is.
The left side of Earth is experiencing night and the bottom half of the planet is experiencing summer
The right side of Earth is experiencing night and the top half is experiencing summer.
How long does a full cycle of moon phases take?
One day
One week
One month
One year
What causes the moon's phases?
The orbit of the Earth around the sun.
Clouds on the moon.
The orbit of the moon around Earth.
The spinning of the Earth on its axis.
What phase of the moon is shown in this diagram?
New moon
First quarter moon
Third quarter moon
Full moon
What phase of the moon is shown in this diagram?
New Moon
Full Moon
Crescent Moon
Gibbous Moon
What does the moon orbit?
The Earth
The Sun
Pluto
Mercury
What does the Earth orbit?
The moon
Jupiter
Mercury
The sun
What does the sun orbit?
The planets
The moon
Nothing
A black hole at the center of the Milky Way
What causes winter?
Winter occurs when the Earth spins on its axis and part of it is pointing away from the sun.
Winter occurs because when part of the Earth is tilted away from the sun.
Winter occurs when the Earth is farther away from the sun as it orbits the sun.
What is happening in this picture?
There is a solar eclipse
There is a lunar eclipse
There is a full moon.
What is happening in this picture?
A solar eclipse
A lunar eclipse
A first quarter moon
A new moon
What is the difference between weight and mass?
Mass depends on gravity and weight does not
Weight depends on gravity and mass does not
Weight is measured in pounds and mass is measured in grams.
What is the definition of impulse?
It is what is needed to change momentum.
It is force x time
It is both of the answers above
It is none of the answers.
In the car crash video, what caused the egg to break when it hit the wall?
The wall exerted a small force over a longer period of time
The wall exerted a large force over a smaller period of time.
Objects in motion stay in motion
The egg was a crumple zone
In the meteoroid/shield lab, what was the action and what was the reaction?
The action was the meteoroid hitting the shield and the reaction was the shield squashing down.
The action was dropping the meteoroid and the reaction was the orbiter being damaged.
The action was the momentum of the orbiter and the reaction was the impulse.
The action was the meteoroid pushing down on the shield and the reaction was the shield pushing up on the meteoroid.
Why would you rather hit something soft than something hard?
Soft things slow you down slower resulting in less damage.
Soft things have less momentum.
Soft things always exert less total force on you than hard things.
Why do we experience warmer temperatures when the Earth is tilted towards the sun?
The Earth is closer to the sun
The days are longer and the nights are shorter
The sun's rays are less direct and more spread out
The sun's rays are more direct
