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Unit 2 Key term

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The motion of a body that travels around another body in space is called ______________

a)

Day

b)

Year

c)

Season

d)

Revolution

2.

The Earth circulates the Sun for 365 1/4 a day

a)

True

b)

False

3.

At an ________, sunlight shines equally on the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

a)

Day

b)

Satelite

c)

Equinox

d)

Umbra

4.

As the moon revolves around Earth, the portion

of the moon that reflects sunlight back to Earth

changes, causing the moon’s appearance to

change. These changes are called _______________.

a)

Range

b)

Tidal range

c)

Neutral phrases

d)

Lunar phrases

5.

An ________ is an event during which one object in space casts a shadow onto another

a)

Eclipses

b)

Lunar eclipes

c)

Eclipe

d)

Penumbra

6.

The _____ is the darkest part of a shadow

a)

Tide

b)

Soltice

c)

Spring tide

d)

Umbra

7.

Tides that have the largest daily tidal range are _______ __________.

a)

Neap tide

b)

Spring tides

c)

Tide

d)

Tidal tides

8.

A body that orbits a larger body is called a ___________.

a)

Year

b)

Satellite

c)

Season

d)

Revolution

9.

_____ are daily changes in the level of ocean water

a)

Rangers

b)

Tides

c)

Teed

d)

Trides

10.

A _____ _____ is the difference between the levels of ocean water high tide and low tide

a)

Tidal range

b)

Tidal

c)

Teeth

d)

Range

11.

Around it is a spreading cone of lighter shadow called the

________.

a)

Penumbra

b)

Pendormium

c)

Rufuse

d)

Peace

12.

As Earth moves along its orbit, the

sunlight reaches more of one hemisphere than

the other. At a ________, the area of

sunlight is at a maximum in one hemisphere and

at a minimum in the other hemisphere.​

a)

Solar

b)

Solstice

c)

Stream

d)

Spy

13.

Tides that have the smallest daily tidal range are ____ _____.

a)

Neap tides

b)

Spring tides

c)

Lunar phases

d)

Satellite

14.

The time it takes a planet to complete one full rotation on its axis is called a ___.

a)

Day

b)

Summer

c)

Season

d)

Winter

15.

Earth completes a full revolution around the sun in 365 ¼ days, or about one ____.

a)

Two

b)

Month

c)

Year

d)

Six million

16.

Each ______ is characterized by a pattern of temperature and other weather trends

a)

Rise

b)

Range

c)

Year

d)

Season

17.

The spinning of a body, such as a planet is called ________.

a)

Regulated

b)

Rotation

c)

Regular

d)

Rise

18.

Does the sun have an hot riotous atmosphere?

a)

Yes it is called Corona

b)

No it has gravity tho

c)

Maybe all planets do

d)

I don't know