WorksheetsThe Sun-Earth-Moon System
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 14mins
Which planets have shorter year, or orbit around the sun, than Earth?
Mars and Jupiter
Mercury and Venus
Saturn and Uranus
Neptune only
What season is the southern hemisphere experiencing when the northern hemisphere is experiencing summer
Fall
Winter
Spring
Summer
Earth experiences seasons as it revolves around the sun because of its
shape
tilt
speed
mass
What season would we be experiencing with Earth #3?
Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall
True or false: The diagram represents summer in the northern hemisphere.
True
False
Is this alignment for a solar or lunar eclipse?
Solar
Lunar
Is this alignment for a solar or a lunar eclipse?
Solar
Lunar
Which moon phase do lunar eclipses occur?
Full Moon
Waxing Gibbous
New Moon
First Quarter
When can a solar eclipse occur?
Anytime
During a new moon
During a full moon
Waning gibbous
A space object goes around another object is...
Rotation
Revolution
Axis
When the lit part of the moon is getting bigger, we call that ...
Waxing
Waning
When the lit part of the moon is getting smaller, we call that ...
Waxing
Waning
The force that causes objects with mass to attract one another.
Weight
Gravity
Mass
Magnetism
Why do planets orbit the Sun?
The Sun is the only celestial object that has a gravitational pull.
The Sun’s chemical composition makes it attract planets.
Only celestial bodies that emit light, like the Sun, can be at the center of an orbit.
The Sun is the most massive object in our solar system, so it exerts the greatest gravitational pull.
