WorksheetsSeason/Day and Night Quiz Retake
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 13mins
1. Students in a science class in Mesquite, Texas, made a poster with a diagram to represent a seasonal change in the Northern Hemisphere. What season is being experienced in Position 1 by the students in ?
Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall
Which is the position of Earth would it be summer for Mesquite?
4. A student draws the model shown below. Which of these best compares the conditions at Location X and Location Y?
It is day time for Y and night time for X.
There are LESS hours of daylight at Location X than at Location Y.
It is winter at Location Y and summer at Location X.
The moon is brighter when viewed from Location X than when viewed from Location Y.
Which of these changes would likely occur if the rate of Earth’s rotation on its axis decreased?
The length of the seasons would be shorter.
The length of the seasons would be longer.
The length of a day would be shorter.
The length of a day would be longer.
The model shows Earth in several positions relative to the sun. In which position is it summer in North America?
Position 1, because North America receives the most direct sun
Position 2, because North America is tilted toward the sun
Position 3, because North America is parallel to the sun
Position 4, because North America is tilted away from the sun
A student wants to use a spinning basketball to model the day-and-night cycle on Earth. What should the student do in order to best model the cause of the day-and-night cycle?
Spin the ball in different directions
Tilt the ball while it is spinning
Paint one half of the ball black and the other half white
Shine a bright light on one side of the ball
The Northern Hemisphere experiences the beginning of fall when Earth is in -
Type your answer as a number only or it will be wrong (ex. 2)
(a)
Which of these locations on Earth experiences the least change in the number of daylight hours throughout the year?
North Pole
South Pole
Equator
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Winter is cooler than other seasons in the Northern Hemisphere because –
Earth is further from the Sun.
rays of sunlight are indirect.
the Moon blocks more of the Sun’s warming rays.
more wind tends to come from cool areas near the artics.
The diagram below shows the relative positions of Earth and the Sun at a certain time of year. Based on the diagram, which season is occurring on position C in the Southern Hemisphere?
Type your answer as follows or it will be counted wrong:
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
(a)
An object will continue moving in a straight line unless it is acted on by an unbalanced force. Which of the following best explains Earth’s motion?
There is no unbalanced force acting on Earth because space is empty and nothing touches Earth.
The gravitational force pulling Earth toward the sun is equal and opposite to the force pulling the sun toward Earth, so there is no unbalanced force acting on Earth.
The sun moves in an elliptical orbit around Earth, and the sun’s gravity pulls Earth along.
Earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the sun because the gravitational force of the sun attracts Earth.
13. Earth would not have seasons if it —
(select all that apply)
did not spin on its axis
did not revolve around the sun
did not change its distance from the sun
did not have a tilt
If the earth is NOT tilted towards or away from the sun, describe the hours of daylight we would receive.
24 hours of daylight
12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night
10 hours of daylight and 14 hours of night
18 hours of daylight and 6 hours of night
The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram shows how the sun is classified among the stars. A star that is a thousands of times dimmer than the sun with a temperature higher than 10,000 K would be classified as---
a main-sequence star in spectral class B
a white dwarf in spectral class B
a supergiant in spectral class K
a main-sequence star in spectral class M
