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- 1. Multiple Choice
The Moon is a(n):
Asteroid
Satellite
Star
Planet
- 2. Multiple Choice
The time it takes the Earth to complete an orbit around the Sun is:
29.5 days
24 hours
365.25 days
1 year
- 3. Multiple Choice
Venus takes around 225 days to orbit the Sun. This means that its years are _____ long.
225 days
112.5 days
365.25 days
243 days
- 4. Multiple Choice
What keeps the moon in orbit around the Earth?
Magnetism
Friction
Sunlight
Gravity
- 5. Multiple Choice
The shape of Earth's orbit around the Sun is best described as:
artificial
a perfect circle
an ellipse
a straight line
- 6. Multiple Choice
A model that places the Earth at the centre of the Solar system is called:
Geocentric
Heliocentric
- 7. Multiple Choice
It takes Jupiter 10 hours to rotate once on its axis. A day on Jupiter is _________ a day on Earth.
shorter than
longer than
the same as
- 8. Multiple Choice
How long does one rotation of the Earth take?
12 hours
24 hours
between 28 and 31 days
365.25 days
- 9. Multiple Choice
It takes Uranus is 17 hours, and 14 minutes to rotate on its axis. The length of one day on Uranus is:
17 hours and 14 minutes
24 hours
7 Earth days
7 hours and 41 minutes
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
35.0°
0°
10.0°
23.5°
- 11. Multiple Choice
The tilt of the Earth's axis is the main reason we have seasons because:
A location receives more sunlight
Some locations are in darkness
The Southern hemisphere is always tilted away from the sun
The amount of sunlight a location receives changes during the year.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Why does the moon shine?
It absorbs the light from the sun and releases it at night
It makes its own light
it reflects the light of the sun
thousands of glow worms live on the sun
- 13. Multiple Choice
When the Northern hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun, the season is:
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Spring
- 14. Multiple Choice
Tides have a few phases. When the water level is the deepest, we call it the _____ tide.
Spring
Flood
High
Low
- 15. Multiple Choice
Areas that are periodically covered and exposed by tides are known as the:
intertidal zone
in-between zone
mud flats
middle tide
- 16. Multiple Choice
The reason we have two tides every 24 hours is that the moon orbits the Earth and causes two bulges of water on opposite sides of the Earth.
True
False
- 17. Multiple Choice
The main cause of tides on Earth is the:
Earth's rotation
gravitational pull of the Moon
gravitational pull of the Sun
the Moon's rotation
- 18. Multiple Choice
The 2nd largest size of moon is called the:
Gibbous
Crescent
Full moon
New moon
- 19. Multiple Choice
During a solar eclipse the ____ blocks out the _____.
Sun; moon
Earth; sun
moon; sun
Earth, moon
- 20. Multiple Choice
A lunar eclipse can only happen at night.
True
False
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