Final Review Day

What is the sun?

• The sun is a fireball.

• The sun is a planet.

• The sun is a star.

• The sun is a animal.

Day and night is caused by the _____________ of earth on its axis.

• revolution
• orbit
• rotation

The spinning of an object on its axis is called______

• orbit
• rotation
• revolution
• tide

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 ________.

• months
• day and night
• seasons
• years

Movement of Earth around the sun.

• Rotation
• Revolution

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

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The moon seems to change shape from day to day in a cycle that lasts about a month as it goes through _.

• revolutions
• phases
• rotations
• eclipses

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is at the center of the Solar System?

• Earth
• Moon
• Sun
• Mars

The Sun provides what to the Earth?

•  Energy
• Water
• Shelter
• Food

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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Rotation causes which of the following? 

• day/night
• seasons

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Revolution causes what?

• day/night
• seasons

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1