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How Do Earth and the Moon Move?

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Earth spins around an imaginary line. Which of these words is the name for the imaginary line around which Earth spins?

a)

axis

b)

orbit

c)

rotation

d)

season

2.

What causes day and night?

a)

The Earths revolution.

b)

The tilt of the earth on its axis.

c)

The Earth's ROTATION on its axis every 24 hours

3.

Earth does this around the sun once a year. It causes seasons.

a)

revolution

b)

axis

c)

rotation

d)

tide

4.

Part of Earth is tilted towards the sun:

a)

summer

b)

winter

5.

Part of Earth is tilted away from the sun:

a)

summer

b)

winter

6.

The weather in the northern United States changes as the seasons change. Which of these kinds of weather do you see there only when that part of Earth points away from the sun?

a)

hot and dry

b)

mild and wet

c)

cold and snowy

d)

warm and stormy

7.

What is a ROTATION?

a)

When one object orbits around another object.

b)

When one object spins around on its axis

c)

When two objects move around each other

8.

How long does it take Earth to make one REVOLUTION AROUND the Sun?

a)

24 hours (one day)

b)

365 days (one year)

c)

11 days

9.

The moon’s phases make up a cycle.

About how long does it take the moon to complete it's cycle?

a)
1 week
b)
1 month
c)
1 year
10.
Name the moon phase
a)
First Quarter
b)
Last Quarter
c)
New Moon
d)
Full Moon
11.
Name the moon phase
a)
First Quarter
b)
Last Quarter
c)
New Moon
d)
Full Moon
12.

What moon phase is this?

a)
Full Moon
b)
Waxing Gibbous
c)
New Moon
d)
Half Moon
13.
Name the moon phase
a)
First Quarter
b)

Third Quarter (Last Quarter)

c)
New Moon
d)
Full Moon
14.
Name the moon phase
a)

crescent

b)

New moon

c)

Half moon

d)

No moon

15.

The Moon doesn't have its own light. It reflects/gets it from the...

a)
Earth
b)
Stars
c)
Sun
d)

Ocean

16.

Which is the correct order of moon phases?

a)

new moon, first quarter moon, full moon, third quarter moon

b)

small moon, big moon, half moon, no moon

c)

full moon, new moon, third quarter moon

d)

none of them

17.

_______are daily changes in ocean water.

The pull of the moon’s gravity causes these changes.

a)

Water

b)

Tides

c)

Colors

d)

Earth

18.

Look at this picture of the water cycle. What is happening in Step A?

(*** Heat causes water to change to water vapor.)

a)

evaporation

b)

condensation

c)

precipitation

d)

collection

19.

Look at this picture of the water cycle. What is happening in Step B?

(***Water vapor condenses into tiny water molecules.)

a)

evaporation

b)

condensation

c)

precipitation

d)

collection

20.

Look at this picture of the water cycle. What is happening in Step C?

a)

evaporation

b)

condensation

c)

precipitation

d)

collection