Quiz about Earth, Seasons, & Moon Review

Question 1

The earth rotates around what?

Accepted Answer

Its axis

Answer

The sun

Answer

The other planets

Answer

The moon

Question 2

What phase moon are you looking at in this picture?

Accepted Answer

Waxing crescent

Answer

New moon

Answer

Waning crescent

Answer

Waxing gibbous

Question 3

What phase moon are you looking at in the picture?

Accepted Answer

Waning gibbous

Answer

First quarter moon

Answer

Waxing gibbous

Answer

Full moon

Question 4

What phase moon are you looking at in the picture?

Accepted Answer

Waxing Gibbous

Answer

Waxing Crescent

Answer

Waning Gibbous

Answer

Waning Crescent

Question 5

What phase moon are you looking at in the picture?

Accepted Answer

Waning Crescent

Answer

Waxing Crescent

Answer

Third Quarter

Answer

New Moon

Question 6

Why does earth have different seasons?

Accepted Answer

Because the earth is tilted on its axis

Answer

Because the earth has an elliptical orbit.

Answer

Because the sun is really far away.

Answer

Because we have polar regions.

Question 7

Looking at Earth A in the picture, which hemisphere is tilted toward the sun?

Accepted Answer

Northern

Answer

Southern

Answer

Neither

Question 8

Looking at Earth D in the picture, which hemisphere is tilted toward the sun?

Accepted Answer

Neither

Answer

Northern

Answer

Southern

Question 9

Looking at Earth C in the picture, the Southern Hemisphere is experiencing what season?

Accepted Answer

Summer

Answer

Spring

Answer

Autumn

Answer

Winter

Question 10

Looking at Earth A in the picture, the Southern Hemisphere is experiencing what season?

Accepted Answer

Winter

Answer

Spring

Answer

Summer

Answer

Autumn

Question 11

What do we call the line on the moon that divides the light side and the dark side?

Accepted Answer

The terminator

Answer

The light/dark line

Answer

The eliminator

Answer

The distributor

Question 12

Approximately how many miles is the moon from the earth?

Accepted Answer

238,000

Answer

2380

Answer

23,800

Answer

93,000,000

Question 13

How big is the moon compared to the earth?

Accepted Answer

25% the size of earth

Answer

50% the size of earth

Answer

75% the size of earth

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100% the size of earth

Question 14

How long does it take the moon to revolve around the earth?

Accepted Answer

29.5 days

Answer

20 days

Answer

30.5 days

Answer

31 days

Question 15

About how many days are there between each phase of the moon?

Accepted Answer

3-4 days

Answer

1 day

Answer

7 days

Answer

29.5 days

Question 16

When the sun is hitting directly on the equator during our spring, we call this day the:

Accepted Answer

Vernal Equinox

Answer

Summer Solstice

Answer

Autumnal Equinox

Answer

Winter Solstice

Question 17

For citizens of the Northern Hemisphere, what is the longest day of the year (most daylight)?

Accepted Answer

June 21st

Answer

September 21st

Answer

December 21st

Answer

March 21st

Question 18

In which direction does the earth spin?

Accepted Answer

Counter-clockwise

Answer

Left

Answer

Right

Answer

Clockwise

Question 19

As a citizen of the earth, when you rotate from the light side of the earth to the dark side of the earth, you experience what?

Accepted Answer

Sunset

Answer

Sunrise

Answer

A lunar eclipse

Answer

A solar eclipse

Question 20

What time of day/night, during your 24 hour spin, would you be able to view a New Moon?

Accepted Answer

Midday

Answer

Midnight

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Just after sunset

Answer

Just before sunset

Question 21

During the waxing phases of the moon, the light side of the moon will be to your [blank].

Accepted Answer

Right

Answer

Left

Answer

Top

Answer

Bottom

Question 22

The earth is a type of [blank], and the moon is a type of [blank].

Accepted Answer

Planet; moon

Answer

Planet; planet

Answer

Star; planet

Answer

Gas giant; moon

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