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WorksheetsEarth and Sun Investigation 1I-Check
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 2hrs 45mins
A fifth-grade class was learning about shadows. They decided to have a contest to see who could make the longest shadow using a post that was 1 meter tall. Check the boxes where the longest shadow would be found.
Just as the Sun is rising
At noon
Just as the Sun is setting
Just after the sun sets
Check the box next to the sentences that are true and helps explain why there is night and day on Earth. There will be more than one right answer.
The Sun moves around the Earth once every 24 hours.
Earth is always half in shadow and half in light.
It takes 1 year for Earth to turn on its axis
Earth spins on a north-south axis.
Night is the side of Earth in shadow
A class in the northern US went outside everyday at 10am and measured the length of the same tall tree's shadow. When they measured the winder shadow, they noticed that it was longer than in the fall. Which statement best explains this phenomenon?
The tree most likely got shorter during the winter after it lost its leaves.
The Sun is higher in the sky in the winter than in the fall.
The Sun is lower in the sky in the winter than in the fall.
The Sun's position in the sky does not change from season to season, so they must have measured incorrectly.
Two students want to model what causes day and night in one place on Earth. They have a basketball, a lamp with no lamp shade, a small plastic person with sticky feet to attach to Earth. They place the lamp and the ball about 2 meters apart.
Which sentence describes the best way to model day and night for the plastic person?
Keep the ball in one place, keep the person in one place on the ball, and move the lamp in a circle around the ball.
Keep the lamp in one place, keep the person in one place on the ball, and rotate the ball.
Keep the ball and the lamp in one place, and move the person around the ball.
Above are the shadows of a flagpole at different times of the day. Put the shadows in order from early morning to late afternoon. (Example: A,B,C,D,E,F--This is not correct order)
(a)
A class investigated when the Sun rose and set each day in Oakland, CA. They found a table that showed the number of hours it was daylight each day. Which sentence indicates the pattern they most likely found?
The most daylight hours were in January.
The most daylight hours were in June.
The most daylight hours were in April.
The most daylight hours were in October.
Check next to the two motions that cause the difference in the number of daylight hours at different times of the year.
The rotation of Earth on a titled axis.
The revolution of the Sun around the Earth.
The revolution of Earth around the Sun.
The rotation of the Moon on its axis.
