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Worksheets6 E 1.1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
What type of tide is the sun and moon at a ninety degree angle?
Spring tide
Neap tide
What is the position of the Earth during an equinox?
The northern end of Earth's axis is pointed toward the sun.
The southern end of Earth's axis is pointed away from the sun.
Earth's axis is neither pointed toward or away from the sun.
What causes seasons?
Earth's tilted axis as it rotates on its axis.
Earth's tilted axis as it revolves around the sun.
Earth's distance from the sun in the summer.
Earth's hemispheres receiving equal amounts of sunlight.
Why do we see phases of the moon?
The tilt of Earth's axis as it rotates.
The moon lights different portions of its surface throughout the month.
As the moon revolves around the Earth, we see different portions of the lit side.
The moon revolves and rotates at the same rate.
How long does it take for Earth to make 1 revolution?
24 hours
365 1/4 days
1 month
1 day
Which statement is true based on the diagram?
It is summer in the northern hemisphere.
Its is winter in the southern hemisphere.
It is an equinox.
It is summer in the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere is receiving less direct sunlight.
Where does the moon get its light?
Sun's reflection
Earth's reflection
The moon produces its own light
Why don't we have eclipses every month?
The Earth's orbit is tilted 5%.
The Earth's axis is tilted 5%.
The moon's orbit is tilted 5%.
The moon's axis is tilted 5%.
Approximately how many tides are there a day?
4 high tides, 4 low tides
2 spring tides, 2 neap tides
2 high tides, 2 low tides
1 high tide, 1 low tide
What moon phase is pictured here?
waning gibbous
waxing crescent
waxing gibbous
waning crescent
How does a solar eclipse occur?
Part of the Earth is in the moon's shadow.
All of the Earth is in the moon's shadow.
The Earth moves between the sun and moon casting its shadow on the moon.
The moon moves into the Earth's shadow.
What moon phase occurs during a lunar eclipse?
new moon
first quarter
full moon
last quarter
Patrick wants to go swimming during the highest high tides and the lowest low tides. He should go
during a neap tide
any day
during a spring tide
