Science Unit C sky Science PAT PREP

Patricia noticed that a fence post at the park was casting a shadow 1.5 m long in a southwest direction.

From this, you can infer that the Sun was in the..

• Northeast

• East

• Southeast

• Southwest

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The composite photo of Earth shows areas in light and in darkness. We can infer that this photo was taken during the summer in the

• Northern Hemisphere

• Southern Hemishere

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

An astronomer provided the following diagram of the Earth and Moon to demonstrate the different phases the Moon goes through in one lunar cycle. Which phase of the Moon in G?

• Full

• First Quarter

• Second Quarter

• Last Quarter

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The Moon never appears as bright as the Sun because the Moon

•  is much smaller than the Sun

• only reflects some of the light produced by the Sun

•  only reflects the light from the Earth

• is smaller than the Earth 

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The number of natural satellites orbiting our Earth is

• 4

• 1

• 104

• 1040

It takes 1 full year for the Earth to revolve around

• its axis

• the Universe

• the sun

• the Moon

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

This is a diagram of the four seasons from the perspective of the northern hemisphere. The globe labelled with a 4 has the northen hemisphere tilted towards the sun. During this time the southern hemisphere would be expereinceing

• summer

• winter

• fall

• spring

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

On a warm day in November, Chucky went out to see how shadows moved throughout the day by observing a single pole in the school yard that measured 1.5 m in height. He measured the compass direction and length of the shadow every 30 min from 8:00 am until 4:30 pm. He missed a few observations in the afternoon. At 3:30 Chucky predicated that the length of the shadow would have been

• 7m

• 8m

• 11m

• 23m

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Refering to the data here, chucky used his observations to calculate the number of degrees in azimuth (compass direction) the Sun moved between sunrise and sunset on this date was

• 106 degrees

• 180 degrees

• 256 degrees

• 358 degrees

From the information, we can infer that sunset must occur at approximately

• 4:00 pm

• 4:15 pm

• 4:45 pm

• 5:00 pm