1. What is the main reason for Earth's diverse climates?
(a) Rotation (b) Revolution and the tilt of the axis (c) The Moon's orbit (d) Solar flares
2. A student draws diagrams of her house and the location of the sun in the sky. Which diagram below does not correctly represent the location of the sun at the time indicated?
3. How long does it take the Earth to complete one rotation?
(a) 24 hours (b) 365 days (c) 12 months (d) Varies by location
4. What is the Earth's orbit?
(A) The path the Earth takes around the Sun
(B) The Earth's rotation on its axis
(C) The Earth's atmosphere
(D) The Earth's surface
5. What does the Earth orbit?
(A) The Moon
(B) The Sun
(C) The Milky Way
(D) The stars
6. How long does it take the Earth to complete one revolution around the Sun?
(a) 24 hours (b) 365 days (c) 365.25 days (d) Varies by season
7. What term describes the Earth's spinning on its axis?
(a) Revolution (b) Rotation (c) Equinox (d) Solstice
8. In what direction does the Earth revolve?
(A) From east to west
(B) From west to east
(C) From north to south
(D) From south to north
9. What is the Earth's axis?
(A) The line that goes through the center of the Earth from pole to pole
(B) The line that goes around the Earth from east to west
(C) The line that goes around the Earth from north to south
(D) The line that goes from the Sun to the Earth
10. What is the Earth's axis?
(A) The imaginary line that goes through the Earth's North and South Poles
(B) The Earth's equator
(C) The Earth's atmosphere
(D) The Earth's surface
11. Which of these cycles is a direct result of Earth’s rotation?
12. What causes day and night on Earth?
(a) The Sun's movement around the Earth (b) The Earth's rotation on its axis (c) The Moon's orbit around the Earth (d) The Earth's revolution around the Sun
13. What happens during a solstice?
(a) Day and night are equal length everywhere on Earth
(b) One hemisphere experiences maximum daylight hours and the other experiences minimum daylight hours
(c) The Sun appears directly overhead at the equator
(d) Both (b) and (c)
14. The yellow line on the diagram represents ?
(a) Rotation of Earth (b) Earth orbiting the sun (c) The Moon's orbit (d) Solar flares
15. The blue dash line on the diagram represents ?
(a) Rotation of Earth (b) Earth orbiting the sun (c) The Moon's orbit (d) Solar flares
16. On which side of a house in should a window be placed so that the people inside the house can see the sunrise each day through the window?
17. Some students used a globe to model the rotation of Earth. They shaded in Demerara , Guyana on the globe, as shown below. They rotated the globe and observed that Texas was in exactly the same place after each rotation. The students could rotate the globe quickly or slowly. If the globe could rotate only at the rate that Earth actually rotates, about how long would each complete rotation take?
18. What is the angle of the Earth's axis in relation to its orbit?
(a) 0 degrees (b) 23.5 degrees (c) 45 degrees (d) 90 degrees
19. Which of these best explains why the sun appears to move across the sky each day?
20. A student is looking for evidence that Earth is always rotating on its axis. Which of the following would provide the best evidence?
a. The different amount of rain that falls each day
b. The different phases of the moon in a month
c. The presence of other planets in the night sky
d. The appearance of shadows changing throughout the day
21. What causes the seasons on Earth?
(a) Changes in the Sun's temperature (b) The Earth's rotation speed (c) The tilt of the Earth's axis and its revolution around the Sun (d) The Moon's phases
22. What does it mean for a planet to orbit something?
(A) To revolve around it
(B) To rotate around it
(C) To spin around it
(D) To crash into it
Gavin Thomas
