Earth's Rotation and Revolution

The spinning of the Earth on an axis is called...

• Revolution

• Rotation

• Orbit

• A year

The pathway the Earth takes around the Sun is...

• Orbit

• Rotation

• Hemisphere

• Axis

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

What is "rotation?"

• Jumping to a new place

• Running in place

• Going completely around something

• Spinning

What causes the seasons?

• The Earth's revolution and tilted axis

• The Sun going around the Earth

• The Earth moving farther away from the Sun

• None of these.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

How long does it take the Earth to complete one revolution?

• One day

• One year

• One summer

• One winter

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The invisible line that passes through the North Pole and the South Pole is called the Earth's _____.

• Invisible lines don't exist.

• prime meridian

• equator

• axis

When the part of the world you're living in is tilted away from the sun, which season will you have?

• fall

• summer

• spring

• winter

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

When the part of the world you're living is tilted towards the Sun, which season will you have?

• summer

• fall

• winter

• spring

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The movement of the Earth around the Sun is called its....

• revolution

• rotation

• procession

• divergence

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The spinning movement of the Earth around its axis is called...

• revolution

• rotation

• orbit

• twist

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6