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WorksheetsSol 6.4
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 24mins
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Class
Date
1.
Why does the Earth have seasons?
a)
The temperature of the sun changes.
b)
Earth rotates on its axis.
c)
Earth's axis is tilted as it moves around the sun.
d)
The distance between Earth and the sun changes.
2.
What season is the Northern Hemisphere in at position 4?
a)
Winter
b)
Spring
c)
Summer
d)
Fall
3.
What season is the Southern Hemisphere in at position 1?
a)
Winter
b)
Spring
c)
Summer
d)
Fall
4.
What is the difference between revolution and rotation of the earth and the moon?
a)
The earth revolves about its axis and the moon rotates around the earth
b)
The earth rotates about its axis and the moon revolves around the earth
c)
The earth rotates about the sun and the moon revolves around the earth.
d)
The earth revolves around the moon and the moon rotates around the sun.
5.
Day and night is caused by the _____________ of earth on its axis.
a)
revolution
b)
orbit
c)
rotation
d)
tilt
6.
As the Earth travels around the sun, this tilt causes different areas of the Earth’s surface to get different amounts of daylight at different times of the year. The angle of the Sun’s rays to the surface also causes areas to have more or less of the Sun’s energy. This causes the ________.
a)
months
b)
day and night
c)
seasons
d)
years
7.
The moon seems to change shape from day to day in a cycle that lasts about a month as it goes through _.
a)
revolutions
b)
phases
c)
rotations
d)
eclipses
8.
As the moon's shape appears to get smaller, we say that the moon is _.
a)
swelling
b)
waxing
c)
waning
d)
disappearing
9.
Which moon phase is when you can't see the moon at all?
a)
Waning crescent
b)
Full moon
c)
Waxing gibbous
d)
New moon
10.
Phases of the moon in which the moon appears to be getting larger are referred to as _.
a)
waxing
b)
waning
c)
new
d)
eclipse
11.
Name this moon phase. (NO MOON SEEN)
a)
New moon
b)
waxing crescent
c)
waning crescent
d)
full moon
12.
Name this phase of the moon.
a)
waning crescent
b)
waxing crescent
c)
waning gibbous
d)
waxing gibbous
13.
Name this moon phase.
a)
new moon
b)
1st quarter moon
c)
last quarter moon
d)
waning gibbous
14.
What is this moon phase?
a)
waning crescent
b)
waxing crescent
c)
waning gibbous
d)
waxing gibbous
15.
What is this moon phase?
a)
new moon
b)
1st quarter
c)
full moon
d)
3rd quarter
16.
Name this moon phase.
a)
waxing crescent
b)
waning crescent
c)
waxing gibbous
d)
waning gibbous
17.
Name this moon phase.
a)
1st quarter
b)
3rd/last quarter
c)
new moon
d)
waxing crescent
18.
Name this moon phase.
a)
waxing crescent
b)
waxing gibbous
c)
waning gibbous
d)
waning crescent
19.
Earth moves in 2 ways.
a)
True
b)
False
20.
Spinning of Earth on its axis.
a)
Rotation
b)
Revolution
21.
Movement of Earth around the sun.
a)
Rotation
b)
Revolution
22.
What is a day?
a)
time required for the Earth to orbit once around the sun
b)
time required for the moon to orbit once around the Earth
c)
time required for the earth to rotate once on its axis
d)
gravity
23.
what is a year?
a)
time required for the Earth to rotate once around its axis
b)
force
c)
time required for the Earth to orbit once around the sun
d)
time required for the moon to orbit once around the Earth
24.
How many stars do we have in our solar system?
a)
1
b)
Millions
c)
it is impossible to know
d)
5
25.
Describe the sun
a)
A moon
b)
A flaming planet
c)
The largest star
d)
An average-sized yellow star
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